The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
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)
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.
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
Beep Boop, Am Not A Bot… 🤖
Show us a filled checkbox right this instant!
Erm… checkbox… here: ❌️
🤖
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a bot?
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
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
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
I don’t let that stop me.
If you at least upvote you aren’t lurking as that counts as engagement.
Thank you for your service 🫡
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.”
Likewise
I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I’ve been busy over here lol
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.
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
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.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Same boat here
The same…boat??? BOAT???
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
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
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 recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
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
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.
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.
Wow! I saw the initial post before all the follow up images were posted, thanks for bringing this back to my attention
Ok, I had to resubscribe after seeing this one. Lol
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 love enabling the display of the instance of other users. It lets you realize how many small and niches instances are out there!
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.
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.
Our content is definitely on the low end for niche topics. Subs either don’t exist, or there might be like 4 members.
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
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
To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds
Similar approach here. Works okay, but personal feeds would be better
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.
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don’t want to see
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.
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?
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.
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?
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!
Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.
No you haven’t!
I mean, if they drop a hot fucking meme like this every time I wouldn’t even be mad.
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.
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
What happened 2023?
The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.
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.
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.
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they’re talking about Reddit
Fun times.
