A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
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The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
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
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.
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
Same here dude I've posted ridiculous amounts on [email protected] and did a highlight by highlight match thread on [email protected] once. That last one was painful af.
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.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
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.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift's armpits
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only...
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
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.
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.
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I'm part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I'm part of the crowd.
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
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.
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
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.
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.
What happened 2023?
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
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
