It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50
Total users are huge now.
There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.


Yeah, agree about old forums. Miss that.
But also it did work well on reddit when it was a small niche community of like 10,000 or less users. the problem is growth destroyed most communities on reddit because you can’t sustain a niche community with 100,000+ people, it enevitably becomes slop