@sun At least part of the reason is that fedi became less interesting even before SPC died. When you compare 2021 fedi and 2025 fedi, the differences are quite large. It suffered the same way basically all social media did since then, but since the network is much smaller and now basically torn in half, the differences are more visible. People changed.

And it doesn't help that getting new people on here almost always made everything worse (the multiple Twitter refugee waves) and is also hard since very good few instances have open registrations.