• li10@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Where they at tho?

    We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.

    I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Isn’t the stat that like 95% of users only lurk? You’re measuring this by posters, not users, if you’re going by who you see post and comment.

    • Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I don’t mind the idea of seeing the same user around. Feels more community centered

        • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          8 months ago

          There are a lot of forks of Misskey which are more popular in the “West”. I recommend you to have a look at Firefish, Iceshrimp, Catodon or Sharkey. Firefish used to gain a lot of traction but there was some personal drama going on with the original maintainer, causing the project to feel unmaintained for a while. Luckily the do have a new maintainer now. Anyway partially due to this problem some folk like the former community manager created a new fork Catodon. Iceshrimp also another direct fork of Firefish. So a bit of trivia from the FOSS Mastodon world. In the you might as well just use Mastodon if you are fine with the UI. But I love that we have so much variety in the FOSS ActivityPub World.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I don’t get why people like the microblig format. It’s so terrible for anything more than snarky quips.

        • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          8 months ago

          For years Reddit and Twitter were coexisting peacefully and it should be clear for everyone by now that each format has its pros and cons and they are used for different purposes. Was is a bit interesting though is that the active users gap between Mastodon and Lemmy seems to be much higher than it was/is with the corporate originals.

        • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I’ve got a mastodon account. The people I follow don’t mark snarky quips. Instead, they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they’ve taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it’s more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.

          Mastodon doesn’t use a personalised algorithm. So your home feed will only show hashtags and people that you follow. (There is an ‘explore’ feed for seeing other stuff that might be ‘trending’ or whatever.) So if you are seeing too many snarky quips - just unfollow the person making them.

          • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
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            8 months ago

            they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they’ve taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it’s more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.

            You can do all that same stuff on Lemmy/reddit, except the comments are actually organized and readable. Trying to read a continuous comment thread on Twitter is such a pain.

    • catculation@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 months ago

      As per the website there are around 900 active users on lemmy I recently joined the fediverse both lemmy and mastodon and tbh lemmy is more active. Mastodon is just an echo chamber only bots are reposting from reddit and twitter.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.

      But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:

      Came here to say this.

      Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

      Username checks out

      This deserves more upvotes.

      I’d give you gold if I could.

      Shots fired.

      Nailed it.

      You. I like you.

      Tree fiddy.

      You had one job.

      That’s enough internet for today.

      Happy cake day! 🎂

      I have the weirdest boner right now.

      Directions unclear.

      Banana for scale.

      5/7 with rice.

      Mom’s spaghetti.

      I laughed harder than I should have.

      Sauce?

      Someone give this man gold.

      Circlejerk is leaking.

      This was not my proudest fap.

      What did I just read?

      Risky click.

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

      (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

      (ಠ_ಠ)

      ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      You dropped this: \

      Woosh!

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Welp. I sure didn’t win that betting pool.

    I’m gonna feel really silly if anyone finds out my best guess was like, maybe, 1500.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Then you haven’t seen fan-made HoI4 mod Equestria at War. In that mod there is even country Stalliongrad with ponies like Caramel Marks and Fire Angel.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      You’ll have to specify which server because lemmy still cannot show all posts on all server in /c/fediverse

      In my opinion the biggest problem on lemmy

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Sweet when are we gonna IPO?

    By the way the CIA just called to ask if anyone knows who controls this place and if they want a free tour of the MIT server closet.

    • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Speaking of IPOs, I just got an email in one of my old spam accounts, which I used for one of my old Reddit accounts that was like 14 years old. It said I could purchase stock at the same price as private investors or something or other.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Lol wallstreatbets are already talking about shorting those stocks. It’s going to be funny.

        • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
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          8 months ago

          considering their user base hates them and they have no profit because the ceo pockets all profitability… and they’re violating various international laws with abusing user data…
          yeah they’re kinda destined to fail

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It’s interesting to see how big the Elon musk twitter takeover affected these numbers. The Reddit exodus is so tiny in comparison. Worth noting that the numbers kept going up after that.

    • Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Clicking through to the additional statistics is really interesting. The equivalent graph for Monthly Active Users shows a big bump in June/July 2023. That lines up with the reddit event, iirc. If those causality assumptions are accurate, it’s neat how the numbers for total users is more affected by Twitter, but the numbers for active users is more affected by Reddit.

      EDIT: nevermind, I didn’t realize the timelines were different. The big Twitter exodus isn’t actually in the second graph, so they can’t be compared. It probably had a bigger impact there as well.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The comparison of users to active monthly users sounds about right … 10 million users with about 1 million active monthly users

    The usual ratio of lurkers to creators … 10 to 1 … the majority of everyone just browses no matter which platform it is … it’s the same in any social circle since the dawn of time … there’s only a small group of creators and everyone else just like to watch / read / listen

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That’s what everyone would like us to believe. Everyone has a unique story and background and to me they are all interesting.

        It’s just that we are all conditioned to think that we are not worthy enough to share our stories. If we believe we aren’t worthy … then we are not. But the opposite is also true, if we believe we are good enough and that our stories are worthy, then they take on a life of their own and become important.

        I always enjoy quoting George Carlin because he was a proponent of the power of belief … society and the individuals in that society believe whatever they want to believe

        “I have as much power as the pope … I just don’t have as many people who believe it” - George Carlin

        • Sabata11792@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          If people are genuinely interested, I had a startle getting my ID renewed today. Security at the courthouse had to hang onto my keys since I forgot to take a key knife off my ring. All went well, but the cops giving me the sink eye for a moment was uncomfortable. At least they didn’t make fun of the anime waifu on the keyring.