The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again
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Nougat 113 points 2 years ago
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.
Carnelian 56 points 2 years ago
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
jballs 5 points 2 years ago
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.
TheFogan 25 points 2 years ago
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.
supersquirrel 3 points 2 years ago
Yes but add in a third Lemming and it is no longer a flamewar, it becomes a theatrical performance.
FauxLiving 7 points 2 years ago
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.
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baatliwala 43 points 2 years ago
Same here dude I've posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id and did a highlight by highlight match thread on !cricket@lemmy.world once. That last one was painful af.
baatliwala 4 points 2 years ago
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.
cole 5 points 2 years ago
Oh I didn't realize you modded r/android. Ping me if you'd like to be a moderator of !android@lemdro.id
PugJesus 34 points 2 years ago
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(tm) 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.
Lost_My_Mind 3 points 2 years ago
The same....boat???? BOAT????
avidamoeba 20 points 2 years ago
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let's hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
FundMECFSResearch 18 points 2 years ago
Thank you for your service 🫡
flameguy21 14 points 2 years ago
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
postmateDumbass 13 points 2 years ago
I don't let that stop me.
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MelonYellow 2 points 2 years ago
It's great! Let's me quickly see how I get along with or not. :D
MelonYellow 3 points 2 years ago
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
RandomVideos 3 points 2 years ago
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
MajorHavoc 3 points 2 years ago
Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!
Iheartcheese 87 points 2 years ago
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift's armpits
AlecSadler 17 points 2 years ago
...is this for real? I don't want to check, but I also can't tell if this is a joke.
EffortlessEffluvium 3 points 2 years ago
They’ve Streisanded it. Just the previous mention jumped the numbers 25%!
Iheartcheese 2 points 2 years ago
All part of my master plan
hmmm 12 points 2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it's just have 2000 user?
Blaze 6 points 2 years ago
You can try posting it to !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , not sure how well it will be received
MajorHavoc 8 points 2 years ago
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).
AmbientChaos 5 points 2 years ago
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?
MajorHavoc 2 points 2 years ago
Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.
Sinister_Grape 62 points 2 years ago
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
TrueStoryBob 8 points 2 years ago
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.
Resonosity 2 points 2 years ago
Welcome back
ivanafterall 20 points 2 years ago
I find this true of so few actual races.
PugJesus 48 points 2 years ago
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Saleh 14 points 2 years ago
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]
ivanafterall 10 points 2 years ago
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.
ininewcrow 10 points 2 years ago
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.
Sunshine 7 points 2 years ago
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.
jagged_circle 1 point 2 years ago
without a link to the source, we have no idea if this is information or misinformation
jagged_circle 0 points 2 years ago
Misinformation is not the same thing as disinformation.
jagged_circle -2 points 2 years ago
Link to source?
reiterationstation 39 points 2 years ago
Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.
I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.
OsrsNeedsF2P 35 points 2 years ago
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
Blaze 5 points 2 years ago
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
NikkiDimes 15 points 2 years ago
Yeah, what's it called so I don't accidentally stumble on it?
AbsoluteChicagoDog 9 points 2 years ago path: 0 15045299 15045694 15051280, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1
NikkiDimes 8 points 2 years ago
Hah, beat you to the joke by 4 minutes, nerd!
Honestly, that's like a millisecond in Lemmy terms, so well done.
Smokeydope 12 points 2 years ago
I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post.
"Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits or show some backbone. Im sorry for even considering a 12 hour protest, Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter. I don't miss my old phone app for reddit at all..."
wipes away a single suppressed tear for the death of boost/sync/whatever and their own lost dignity when spez isn't looking
Seriously good on you for being a trendsetter with a basic shred of self respect who knows when to tap out of a bad/abusive situation, Echofox. I wonder just how much more the water needs to be boiled before even the joke characature above gets tired of reddits BS. Maybe never.
Echofox 3 points 2 years ago
Hey thanks, I do lean a little hard on the self deprecating humor sometimes.
Reddit has been getting worse for years, and the comments there are so adversarial and insincere.
Users definitely can get sick of bad sites, what happened with X shows that. Their user base is a small fraction of what it was a few years ago.
I'm definitely liking it here though!
cybermass 34 points 2 years ago
I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
Phoenicianpirate 11 points 2 years ago
I have been temporarily banned from a new account I made a while ago to return after my permabanned last summer. I am seriously thinking of fully ditching reddit save for a few special nerdy interests (and porn).
Dil 10 points 2 years ago
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn't auto perm ban me "ban evasion," and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn't want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it's clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Dil 9 points 2 years ago
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It's like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should've been made long ago.
Captainautism 28 points 2 years ago
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
MataVatnik 10 points 2 years ago
🫶 Its hard to give up all that history
MataVatnik 6 points 2 years ago
I manually edited mine before deleting
Captainautism 2 points 2 years ago
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.
iowagneiss 3 points 2 years ago
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn't enough engagement here yet.
Captainautism 4 points 2 years ago
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
Winterfrost 27 points 2 years ago
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
FlashMobOfOne 25 points 2 years ago
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
Gullible 21 points 2 years ago
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!
imaqtpie 36 points 2 years ago
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.
Waldschrat 16 points 2 years ago
What happened 2023?
Edgarallenpwn 28 points 2 years ago
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
BroccoLemuria 7 points 2 years ago
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they're talking about Reddit
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol 6 points 2 years ago path: 0 15051699 15052160, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 2
mesamunefire 7 points 2 years ago
I remember there were reddit-likes too, they just didnt work with fediverse. And were mostly....well almost all were unsavory. Like they were ONLY populated with people reddit didnt want anymore. Communities with banned content. So not the greatest.
Im glad lemmy/piefed/kbin and all other activityhub/fediverse alternatives are out there.
Die4Ever 4 points 2 years ago
I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.
atomicpoet 15 points 2 years ago
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
Sunshine 9 points 2 years ago
They’re from https://join-lemmy.org/instances
atomicpoet 19 points 2 years ago
Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.
Not bad.
Blaze 8 points 2 years ago
Alternatively, https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats is still up
mesamunefire 2 points 2 years ago
Nice!
mesamunefire 1 point 2 years ago
Fedidb has always had strange numbers...
Glitchvid 14 points 2 years ago
I finally made the move to setting up an account here and wean my reddit usage.
It's getting so bad on there, so many bots, trolls, and paid agitators. Plus the uptick in fascist apologists. Smaller communities with higher bars to entry produce better conversation, in my experience.
salacious_coaster 5 points 2 years ago
The bots have really ramped up since Trump took office again. Seeing so many top comments with thousands of upvotes just gaslighting the shit out of frightened Americans, telling them they need to touch grass and everything is fine...it's so chilling.
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blind3rdeye 11 points 2 years ago
I don't know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.
But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn't make things a thousand times better - that's for sure.
(That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down... because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)
ClockworkN 4 points 2 years ago
Well there's still more niche topics that are hard to sustain a community for on Lemmy due to the lack of population. I'd like to see that grow. Hopefully in time.
Dropper_Post 1 point 2 years ago path: 0 15053810 15059014 15059020 15059529, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
Dropper_Post 8 points 2 years ago path: 0 15053810 15055634 15055688, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 5
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Dil 5 points 2 years ago
Suprisingly better for actual conversation, reddit would be like screaming into a void sometimes, any topic you're interested in if it doesn't already have a community, make one from a popular general purpose instance and start posting, people will reply and see it, and it'll potentially hit the front page equivalent letting more eyes see it. Reddit was no longer showing me interesting niches, I had to already know about it to find a sub and get it on my feed, so many interesting subs I only learned about because I got into the hobby outside of reddit have more potential to be visible on the main feed here. Reddit algorithm right now is a roller coaster, this feels more like reading a newsletter, old reddit.
stuthepower33 12 points 2 years ago
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
I_Miss_Daniel 6 points 2 years ago
Cue the 'too the moon' rocket but with the btc logo removed and the Fediverse icon added.
sturlabragason 8 points 2 years ago
👈 Hey!
samus12345 10 points 2 years ago
No you haven't!
Edgarallenpwn 5 points 2 years ago
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a bot?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 15045669 15051252, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
Squirrelanna 2 points 2 years ago
Show us a filled checkbox right this instant!
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol 5 points 2 years ago path: 0 15045669 15051252 15052036 15052136, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
mesamunefire 5 points 2 years ago
Fun times.
OneTwoThree 4 points 2 years ago
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
Nursery2787 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 15083060 15083594, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
pumpkinseedoil 2 points 2 years ago
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don't want to see
pageflight 2 points 2 years ago
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.
return2ozma 3 points 2 years ago
You're welcome.
finitebanjo 2 points 2 years ago
Noice, I wonder if Hexbear going down helped at all.
finitebanjo -4 points 2 years ago
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.
jagged_circle 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 15037686 15037956 15041546 15042453 15045440, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
finitebanjo -2 points 2 years ago
You sat here and defended Hexbear. All Tankies are anarchists in the West, Authoritarians in the East.
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).
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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.)
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