Dave , 16 hours ago (edited 13 hours ago)

Peak Lemmy users happened, it was in the later part of last year as a result of the reddit API controversy. No one expected that to stay, and users slowly waned after this as expected.

I’d say we’re in a maintenance phase at the moment. Active users is somewhat steady, posts and comments are somewhat steady. There are around 45k active users, but note that Lemmy counts this different than other sites. For later Lemmy versions, you need to comment, post, or vote to be considered. Lurkers that don’t vote (whether logged in or not) are not counted at all (for earlier Lemmy versions, voters are also not counted).

Growing more will probably happen after some other event to dive people away from reddit.