Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.
The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Yup, I’m here from when the API change was announced, but I had been looking for a decent alternative for a couple years (ever since new Reddit), so I’m pretty sure I’m sticking around. I’m guessing a lot of people came merely out of protest and ended up leaving when it didn’t have a given community they were looking for.