Is it just me or the fediverse growth actually pretty much stopped over the last year?

Seriously, the pace of lemmy development is like russian frontline progress in Ukraine. Maybe something is up here considering devs are most likely Russians.

Have we had any serious updates in last year? I don't recall tbh. UI is the same, funcionalities are the same. Usability still is garbage, users are confused. I'm confused, although I'm over a year on lemmy. I only use my own instance because interactions with the rest of fediverse is confusing as f**.

Checking up https://fedidb.com/ and https://fediverse.observer/stats confirms that. Fedidb even stopped showing charts, I assume because it looks bad othwerwise they would proudly present the growth. Observer shows us that total number is going up, but it looks like folks just quickly check and leave cause number of active users is still the same.

Guy that entusiastically regularly posted weekly fediverse updates here https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-122/ stopped doing that 3 months ago. Posted for over 2 years and suddenly no message from him.