I’m calling this one the exodus of st mangione
Hmm. I wonder if the server i just launched was number 600 😁😁🔥😁
Woo! That’s awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.
We are already successful, I’m seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.
We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.
To anyone new wondering about phone apps for Lemmy, I use “Thunder” and it works great.
Also, feel free to say Luigi without getting banned.
Voyager also work good.
Or if you like it simple I can only recommend Jerboa
Let’s gooo
Good for Lemmy.
Worth noting is that what counts as an “active user” has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an “active user” was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.
Huzzah, us lurkers now count towards the global stats!
Good point
I think that change was done way back when. Do you have a reference for the algorithm change? I tried a quick search and came out empty.
It is really awesome here. Like the good ol internet days.
Agreed. I hope it doesn’t become so popular that it turns to shit.
Meh. These stats are so flawed. Its like 5 servers having most of the users.
Its like pretending we have this amazing distributed network when its actually extreamly centralized.
But im happy Lemmy is growing, its good.
Fedidb observes 50k monthly active users. 65% of these are distributed between instances with more than 2000 monthly active users, making up the five biggest instances. Half (51%) are on either Lemmy.world or Lemm.ee, which are the only instances with more than 3000 monthly active users.
A fourth of us are on instances with less than 1000 monthly active users.
I don’t think that’s all that bad. But who am I to say, I’m not even part of the statistic. :)
imo we should focus on a statistic on the entire Threadiverse instead of only Lemmy. After all, these software are highly intercompatible, so excluding them doesn’t make sense.
5 > 1
even 3 would be a huge advantage over centralized
55.1k MAU are 55.1k MAU. What about that is flawed?
Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps to not be shit. looking at reddit.
I flipping love Lemmy.
Let’s go Lemmyyyyy!!!
Makes me happy to see it, a future for a platform that is not locked by a single large player. Instead, I can have my own profile that I actually own and do not “lend”.
Yep! We come from all over.
Currently using phtn.app for browsing lemmy, though it’s a bit buggy on mobile. V2 will be coming soon so hopefully most bugs will be fixed.
What y’all using?
Firefox
vger.app
Connect for Lemmy. Super under- rated.
I’m using my web browser (on mobile)! I know I’m not the only one, but that’s usually pretty unpopular. I’ve never been big on social media, but I’ve never used an app for any of them I have used in the past, including Reddit. Website with ad blockers for me, screw those guys. Here, though, I might give in eventually and try an app…
Phtn.app is actually a website/selfhosted interface for lemmy. The mobile PWA is a big buggy, but the desktop one works fine.
Thunder. I used to use Sync for reddit before, and used it a bit for Lemmy. But I like thunder a bit more.
I also use Interstellar for mbin.
Interesting. Is mbin the same as kbin or?
From what I understand, it’s a fork of kbin. when kbin dev went silent and didn’t trust anybody else to help them, a few other devs forked it.
And what do you think of it? What’s the general feeling? I remember being hyped about kbin then there were lots of problems with the site, then dev disappeared.
Boost for Lemmy on Android.
Tesseract on desktop and mobile.
Jerboa. Tried several and liked it best.
That’s the one I like. Or piefeds mobile on Firefox.
Eternity on phone, Lemmy as a PWA on my tablet and official Lemmy site on my laptop and on desktop.
Voyager on android, im perfectly happy with it.
Voyager on iOS is great.
I tried it but I have one beef with it: once logged in, my subscribed communities are no longer appearing and i have to resubbscribe to all of them. I did it once on phtn and wouldn’t want to do it all over again as I’m hopping around lemmy apps.
Wait, aren’t community subscriptions synced with your account?
I thought so, but at least in Voyagger iOS after I logged in I had no subscriptions. I didn’t bother to double check for now as I’m quite happy with phtn.
LE: reinstalled voyager and now I have my subscriptions linked with my account. Looks dope too.
Nice!
I’m using Mlem as I think it looks the best!
Will look on it too, heard about it back in 2023 but never tried it.
Self hosted tesseract web UI.
This one looks sleak af.
The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don’t lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.
Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.
I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.
think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator
Doubly so considering how the main devs manage their instance according to their highly controversial political views LMAO
I don’t think it’s healthy enough but certainly better than the mastodon ecosystem
It’s mostly because people keep recommending LW instead of other instances.
I didn’t really understand this on the way in. Is there an explanation somewhere. I found a mobile browser app and it sort of stuck me on one without me being able to select.
I think I’m with lemme ee?
Think of your instance you signed up as as your email provider. Using that email you can send messages to anyone else who has an email. You do not have to pick a specific email provider to use email, gmail, hotmail etc they can all talk to each other. Lemmy works in a similar way except it not limited to DMs, the instance you sign up for allows you to talk to people across all Lemmy instances and see posts from other instances. When you go to “All” on Lemmy you are seeing all posts across all instances. When you go to Local, you are only seeing your home instance.
Got it. Is there a way for me to transfer or do you just register into a new account once I figure out the best server for me?
Register for a new account, but you can also export, then import your subscription list and other settings.
You have to make a new account in order to move instances. But I think you can export your subscriptions.
Awesome thanks! I will scan around for a couple weeks and then register into a new account. Being a reddifugee with the recent censorship and a big “Center for humane tech” nerd am excited to be shifting in a better direction - so will for sure be invested in server and site health.
