Makes me wonder if it's specific softwares that are pulling the statistics downward, or in general. Also the last 6 months seem rather stable on the graph.
Auster
Reading the article, it's so many conditions to be uninstallable I fear even Bill Gates himself couldn't.
On the question: throw a dice and hope you don't piss off too many people :v
shaws menacingly
Sorry, forgot it was a bit of an underground thing.
Anyways, pretty good drawing!
cryptid intensifies
I'd imagine they're only getting rarer. Also maybe they could be of use to dump the ROM and saves too.
Let's hope you don't need to, but I'd selling them only if you're desperate for money.
I made the community pretty open-ended, so I guess both count.
Also, on using alternatives being a type of deshittification, I'd say even that with competition around, the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share.
Edit: added a third question to the description, so I think it should be clearer
[With an overly high-pitched voice] A scratch? Your arm's off!
In the repost on the Chile community, also saw one or other comment about Lemmy being toxic. I do notice a certain "toxicity", though from certain corners and which seems to stems more often from what I call "misery posting", which would be posts whose main focus seems to be to make the given topic appear like a lost cause to the reader (even some "meme" communities seem to fall on this).
Since some communities seem specially prone for such posts, I second blocking those as you notice the patterns to try to make your feed healthier, and to hopefully make such places shrink into a healthier size. Or at least, if you got the patience and resistance to mass downvoting and mobbing, to post in those communities and within their rules what to you is positive. Alternatively/Parallel to that, one could make sure to react accordingly to posts, instead of uninterestedly hide everything in feed as the user scrolls.
Otherwise, a given environment shrinking or tanking in growth could also mean people that use it are growing apathetic or anomic to popularizing it, to which I repeat my suggestion in the Chile community, change starts by small steps. So for example, if someone is on a platform compatible by extension but without an ActivityPub bridge or function active (e.g. Threads and Bluesky), to explain to them they could activate it, and e.g. Fedi Brdigy is working on Lemmy compatibility, so more potential users going around. Also, if you see a funny meme or the sort, you could share the link, provided it has a decent blurb preview on the platform to be sent.
Also spikes happen anywhere when competing platforms have issues, so current retention might just be its natural one.
And even on a Lemmy account I have (thus little noise from microblogging) and while highly curating my feeds there, the amount of posts is almost too much for me to be able to go through. So by observation, the "threadiverse" as a whole seems rather healthy in numbers.
También las estatíscas solo van crecer creando contenidos para la red y compartindo con personas de fuera de acá. No sé como está el ActivityPub en completo, pero si también lo disminue la cuantidad de usuários activos, esta que sé es la mejor forma de hacer con que tengamos más usuários.
Otra forma potencialmente buena es hacer popular puentes. Fedi Bridgy ya mencionado, Wafrn y Friendica hacen puentes a AT Protocol (Bluesky). Minds.com comunicase a algún protocolo similar a AT Protocol, Threads comunicase con ActivityPub si activa la integración en una configuración escondida (tutorial si quieres mostrar a otros), y hán motores de sítions con extensiones para compatibilidad con ActivityPub, como Wordpress.
To the OP:
Personally, if I want to post something, I search for communities that sound like good fits, then go by elimination if I find multiple.
But with as broad of a suggestion that it is, I second Skavau's question. Could you give an example of what you'd like to post so we can give some ideas?