The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
🫶 Its hard to give up all that history
Yeah, it was tough. I did clean it out a couple of times over the years, but it’d been a while when I deleted it.
No history is gone, all your posts and comments stay up lol, you have to manually edit them or use a third party service, too late now. They still have any helpful info you gave.
I manually edited mine before deleting
Reddit still has them. And already rolled back edits where useful
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Gotta start making them and posting just to get the ball rolling a little, you can always turn over moderating if someone wants it. I need to take my own advice when I’m bored.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.
We certainly aren’t hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)
I was on reddit for sixteen years, and on digg and a little slashdot for several years before that. I spend a lot of time in places like these. I’m not even on a super popular instance, and there’s plenty of content here.
I love enabling the display of the instance of other users. It lets you realize how many small and niches instances are out there!
I would say lemmy is in one of the better positions of the fediverse, as far as being useful.
IE IMO the facebook/instagram equivelents you need an insane critical mass to get anywhere, because simply put, in a crowd of 100k in the globe, you probably don’t have your friends/family… IE the people you use those apps to see.
Mastadon… a little bit better as you are looking for general stuff, but still the main drive of twixxer is reading on celebs, noteworthy figures etc…
Lemmy… well sure in 100k people you’ll absolutely find some with interesting discussion on politics, gaming, plenty of memes and cat pictures etc… Obviously without a real huge constant growth we won’t be the ideal place to discuss super niche topics (least ones that aren’t only discussed by a handful of geeks). So barring either super narrowly focused migrations, or major exedus’s lemmy will probably lag behind reddit when it comes to say discussing specific games/movies, but will continue to have great content in the overall gaming/movie/meme topics.
On Lemmy, two’s a crowd (or a flamewar).
Yes but add in a third Lemming and it is no longer a flamewar, it becomes a theatrical performance.
NO YOU’RE WRONG
*dons a Viking helmet and in a deep bariton sings* No they’re nooooot 🎶
I grew up when the Internet was essentially a bunch of forum communities and 10k people was a lot of people. Something Awful felt massive with 300k registered users.
You don’t need 150,000,000 people on a subreddit to have a good community.
Communities are far better when you can recognize the names of people and remember then from previous interactions. On Reddit, you’ll probably never talk to the same person twice.
You can’t have a community full of bots if there are only a few hundred people who all know each other.
I only thought it would be an issue my first week of Lemmy, using it for a month now I really like the smaller community.
Seriously though, I’ll scroll for hours at a time. Some of my favorite online communities ever are here on lemmy. What we’re building here is awesome.
It’s not uncanny to the point of having a full community for every game, hobby, and random concept that’s ever crossed someones mind. But honestly after seeing the internet evolve over the years I’m kind of over the idea of trying to cram everything into one giant website. Fedi is particularly awesome for that of course, moreso than ever now with loops and pixelfed doing so well
Yeah I regularly spend hours here every day with no lack of content. For example, did you see the guy with the thermal camera a couple days ago? Facisinating.
Ok, I had to resubscribe after seeing this one. Lol
Wow! I saw the initial post before all the follow up images were posted, thanks for bringing this back to my attention
Our content is definitely on the low end for niche topics. Subs either don’t exist, or there might be like 4 members.
Similar for gaming, “dead game” on a game that has way more than enough people to fill a lobby still. Or even worse if its a single player game.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I find this true of so few actual races.
Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the age of the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.
Edit: Okay, I read the rest of the article. Quite a ride.
Wow. Absolute legend
Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.[2] Despite attempting the event again in later years, Young was unable to repeat this performance or claim victory again.[8]
It was our evolutionary success as a human animal. We were never the fastest, strongest or even the most numerous at the start. But working slowly as a cooperative community, we conquered every liveable space on the planet. We can do the same online.
Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it
Someone fetch me my spear
And my axe!
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
Alternatively, https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats is still up
Nice!
They’re from https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.
Not bad.
We were hanging around 43k mau for the longest time.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
I’ve always wondered why active-but-silent didn’t count. If you bother to login, you’re active to me.
Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
That’s true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn’t post or comment.
But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we’ve seen some really nice organic growth, although it’s not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it’s really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.
whee!!! let the rollercoaster climb for the reddit decline!
Cue the ‘too the moon’ rocket but with the btc logo removed and the Fediverse icon added.
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
Wonder what happened in ~June of 2024. Summer signups?
We saw a spike of users for the papaya snark community when they were banned off reddit, I think it’s that.
Why’d they get banned? That insta girl take issue with her image being sullied? The other general snark subs are still around.
That incident completely flew under my radar. Unbelievable that Reddit did that.
Thank you for providing this informative graph! I will be saving it for future use.
That’s great to see we’re spiking a bit recently just not as much as the days of the Reddit api shutdown situation.
You could use this graph to investigate the incidents that have occurred with the user spikes.
without a link to the source, we have no idea if this is information or misinformation
Bro. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Misinformation is not the same thing as disinformation.
Nice graph
Link to source?
I am the source.
Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomy than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
lmao posting in communtities from my different accounts (not to the same communities, like alts for keeping notifcations on topics seperate) to help build up my future lurking places
Even though i have been much more active here than on reddit, i have way less karma
Every time i tried to calculate the percentage of how much less, it said something about dbzer0.com for some reason
Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
If you at least upvote you aren’t lurking as that counts as engagement.
I don’t let that stop me.
Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
Noice. Tbh I didn’t post too much on /r/Android as I liked being a mod on it as I’m a huge Android nerd; I think people would have called mod abuse or something if they only saw my posts in the feed lol. People liked to be overtly critical of the modding anyway on that subreddit.
Oh I didn’t realize you modded r/android. Ping me if you’d like to be a moderator of !android@lemdro.id
My app tells me I upvoted you 12 times in the last 10 days. Thank you
What app is that? Does it also show me other’s up votes?
vger.app but you need to enable the feature in your settings. It will show next to their usernames
It’s great! Let’s me quickly see how I get along with or not. :D
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.
Same boat here
The same…boat??? BOAT???
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Thank you for your service 🫡
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
Likewise
I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I’ve been busy over here lol
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
Yeah! I’ve been doing the same. I actually find myself thinking “I haven’t participated in a conversation in over a week. I better find something to comment on.”
👈 Hey!
Noice, I wonder if Hexbear going down helped at all.
Tbh not a chance
I feel like people like you are the main reason people stay far away from fediverse. Ya’ll Tankies are just sick in the head, a cancer to communities.
I’m an anarchist… literally the opposite of a tankie…
Why does an anarchist have communist as a username
Probably an Anarcho-Communist.
Wait until they figure out that anarchocapitalists aren’t anarchists
Wait until you figure out that user just defended Hexbear. It’s an astroturf, mate.
As someone fairly new to lemmy, I had to look into this drama with lemmy.world, lemmygrad and hexbear. It has definitely shed some light on who has the big stick and who likes to play police.
I did not defend hexbear, I just said they likely didn’t have much impact on user count… you sound like a conspiracy theorist
Ohno the astroturfing Tankies feelings got hurt because I pointed out what they literally just did.
I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?
You sat here and defended Hexbear. All Tankies are anarchists in the West, Authoritarians in the East.
Dude what I just said it probably didn’t have much to do with user count
Yeah, after I bashed Tankies whose absence makes the fediverse more palatable you said “Nuh Uh, no it doesn’t.”
That isn’t what happened.
you stated this probably had an impact on the number of users, I stated I doubt that, you have no idea what’s going on do you?
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
…is this for real? I don’t want to check, but I also can’t tell if this is a joke.
I just checked, it exists but has 2500 subs
They’ve Streisanded it. Just the previous mention jumped the numbers 25%!
All part of my master plan
https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it’s just have 2000 user?
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
You can try posting it to !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , not sure how well it will be received
I’m holding out till we get taytays back of the knees sub! That’s truely the peak god tier content! Looool
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only…
You make I upload? Deal?
So much possibility…
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).
Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen
Everyone is comparing active users to total users though, Lemmy’s total users is about 10x the number of actives users at 477k. I think you have to post or comment to be marked active?
Think it was changed to include upvotes/downvotes. Could be wrong, saw it on a similar thread.
Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.
So, back in 2023 I discovered Lemmy, made an account, but after a bit quit again because I never checked it. I recently made an account again since Reddit has started getting really bad (tons of bots, tons of conservative posts on r/popular after the election, etc) and only recently started actually using said account.
I think using Lemmy requires a different strategy than using Reddit. On Reddit, if you wanted to subscribe to, say, a Linux discussion group, you would just go to r/linux, and there would be just 4 more even more niche subs you could join, like r/linux4noobs. On Lemmy, their are 6 main Linux groups and 14 niche Linux groups across several instances.
The first time I joined Lemmy, I subscribed to just one of these groups like I would on Reddit, but my feed didn’t have enough content so eventually I got bored. The second time around, I created I’ve just subscribed broadly to every community related to my interests, so I if I was interested in Linux I would subscribe to all 20 Linux communities.
I then hypothesized that if I did this for every interest (ex, say my only interests were Linux & Plants, or something), that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests. To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds
- My “general account” in which I subscribed to nearly every top sub, so if I found I didn’t care about a certain topic on All I could unsubscribe instead of outright blocking those communities (that’s this account)
- My “interests account” in which I subscribed to my personalized interests like privacy or environment
- My “fun account” in which I subscribed to just meme, gaming, cats, etc communities
That’s all just me though, how do y’all use Lemmy differently from Reddit? I’m curious as to how I can git gud at Lemmy lol
Should just introduce a list feature. Share lists of servers and have upvotes on them and subscribe counts and description of the list. So looking into Linux lists, you can see that the top list has most of the communities, a few that are excluded for whatever reason, most people subscribing to that list.
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don’t want to see
To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds
Similar approach here. Works okay, but personal feeds would be better
that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests
I certainly run into that. I don’t think I have the energy for multiple accounts, but I wish I could ask for roughly equal numbers of posts from my top 4-5 communities, instead of News + WorldNews dominating everything.
You’re welcome.
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech.
Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Welcome back
Good :) welcome back!
