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
If I only wanted to look at pics of cats then Twitter or Instagram would do just as well. If Lemmy survives as a forum for vacuous fluff then it’ll have to do so without me :-)
There’s a spectrum of topics between cats and politics / news. To each their own :)