It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.
Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren’t attracted enough to become regular visitors.
Curious to see at which number we’ll stabilize.
Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)
Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Let the servers keep crashing, tell everyone to add new instances to help with performance, which puts 1500 rows into the database tables that used to have 50 rows and invokes a massive federation 1-vote-1-https overhead… causing more crashing… all the while ignoring the SQL design of machine-generated ORM statements and counting logic hidden in the background triggers.
… keep users off your sever as a method of scaling by crashing. It’s one of the more interesting experiences I’ve had this year! And I spent all of February and March with the release of GPT-4… which was also interesting!
How is it going on that side, are they still ignoring your pull requests?
I’ve largely given up on pull requests… for sake of sanity. But I waded back in…
I made a pull request today… and I very strategically choose to do it with minimal of features so that it would just go through… and I got lectured that JOIN is never a concern and that filtering based on the core function of the site (presenting fresh meat to readers) was a bad use of the database. I’ve never seen hazing on a project like this. Memcached and Redis should be discussed every day as “why are we not doing what every website does?”, but mum is the word.