The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
Lemmy needs post creators above all but we will take everyone
Sir, shit posters are the back bone of any online fora.
I am not interesting
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
Which community is that so I can block it?
Hah, beat you to the joke by 4 minutes, nerd!
Honestly, that’s like a millisecond in Lemmy terms, so well done.
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
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.
🫶 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
Slow and steady wins the race.
I find this true of so few actual races.
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]
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Welcome!
This place is so much better for actually discussing things.
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.
Yeah, I was starting to feel a bit crazy with how many were coming out of the woodwork with almost exactly that same wording, even in my city’s sub.
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
Well, in your case, even if Reddit has 8 billions users, you still wouldn’t be able to access it, so why worry?
I can access, I believe I can create another account. I just feel like lemmy is more like me people
Users are more active as the platform is smaller, interactions are more engaging
So in reddit not engaging? What users do there then?
Yes I think what everyone is trying to say but can’t quite put into words is that reddit is an order of magnitude larger than lemmy like a massive big box store is an order of magnitude larger than a corner mart & cafe and yet nobody would stand in the corner mart & cafe and conclude it felt less human in comparison to the big box store because so many less people passed through its doors.
The environment of a big box store is steeped in distrust and it is a space where spontaneous interaction is codified with deep suspicion.
A local mart or cafe on the otherhand is more likely to suggest trustful grounds to interact that may provide bridges over the roaring rivers of first impression.
That is a difference that is invisible if you are primarily looking through the lens of large statistical noisey trends, but no mistake that unmistakable difference between “big box store” and “cornermart & cafe” is a multiplicative factor acting on every moment and is of the type that can nullify extreme powerbalances by making the entire paradigm that carefully precipitated it irrelevant in a flash.
Mostly lurk, as there’s no point commenting in a thread with 5000 comments
ah yes, true dat, I happened to comment sometime ago on some posts like related to luigi mangione as one of the first ones, and got upvoted like 20k times and got awards and such. Good times good times.
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.)
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.
You know how on reddit people comment to tell you to google, argue, etc. Here they just answer the question or move on, it’s wonderful.
Like, they’ll answer everything but your question, tell you how you’re wrong and should do something else entirely, here they read your question all the way and actually answer it
Yeah i know what you mean. I never thought about it. Thanks. I am fairly new on lemmy. I sure do miss more memes on reddit but damn you are right.
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.
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
Welcome back!
That’s why I’m here.
Welcome!
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).
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
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.
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.
To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds
Similar approach here. Works okay, but personal feeds would be better
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don’t want to see
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.
This person fucks.
numbers
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:
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.
Link to source?
I am the source.
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.
Nice graph
Fun times.
