If we had passed some kind of tipping point, this is what it would look like.

quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.

Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.

PieFed does that. See https://piefed.social/feeds which are basically collections of Lemmy communities that you can join or leave with 1 click.

Yep

It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with tankie memes — interspersed with photos generated by AI

I’ve really tried to provide tools to tame the meme flood and put them into effect on https://piefed.social/ - compare that with the front-page (or All feed) of any Lemmy instance (or most PieFed instances, to be fair).

Gen AI filter is coming.

Although, replacing the battery on the Fairphone is so much easier that 1000 cycles is acceptable.

#fedihire hashtag on Mastodon is as close as it gets.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

https://mbin.fediverse.observer/stats

Overall

https://fediverse.observer/stats

But usage is not going downwards. Check these stats out: https://fediverse.observer/stats

MAU has been steady at 1.1 million since this time last year.

Within the fediverse there are some platforms that are losing ground and some that are growing.