This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Where they at tho?
We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.
I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀
I think a lot of the refugees from Reddit are lurkers.
I heard it's something like 90% of people lurk, 10% of people comment, 1% of people post. So you need a pretty substantial population just to have enough posts and comments for the lurkers to still hang around.
It's also why it was particularly dumb of Reddit to piss off their 1% and 10%.
Can confirm. I don't talk much lol.
They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
Wait what's Misskey?
It’s a Mastodon type microblogging service but I think I read it’s popular in Japan and South Korea.
Lemmy is only 4% of the fediverse by user %. Most of the fediverse is Mastodon.
I don't get why people like the microblig format. It's so terrible for anything more than snarky quips.
I've got a mastodon account. The people I follow don't mark snarky quips. Instead, they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they've taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it's more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.
Mastodon doesn't use a personalised algorithm. So your home feed will only show hashtags and people that you follow. (There is an 'explore' feed for seeing other stuff that might be 'trending' or whatever.) So if you are seeing too many snarky quips - just unfollow the person making them.
A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.
But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:
Came here to say this.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
Username checks out
This deserves more upvotes.
I’d give you gold if I could.
Shots fired.
Nailed it.
You. I like you.
Tree fiddy.
You had one job.
That’s enough internet for today.
Happy cake day! 🎂
I have the weirdest boner right now.
Directions unclear.
Banana for scale.
5/7 with rice.
Mom’s spaghetti.
I laughed harder than I should have.
Sauce?
Someone give this man gold.
Circlejerk is leaking.
This was not my proudest fap.
What did I just read?
Risky click.
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You dropped this: \
Woosh!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Everyone wishing for more users might be wishing on a cursed monkey paw. I don’t know what the sweet spot number of active users is — I want more so we can have contributors to niche communities — but there’s a tipping point. You want your favorite bar/restaurant/message boards to be popular but not too popular.
Personally I think it's more important to break big-tech's hold on online communication. Every single user who leaves a centralized platform to join the Fediverse is a win in my books! Another thing is that we never had a mainstream decentralized, nonprofit and non-algorithmic social network before afaik, I'm actually not sure if the climate will evolve like it did with the other networks.
I guess I just don't have faith in the majority's conversation. Once you have a lot of dumb people, all the content starts devolving. Especially the comments.
As a dumb myself, it's a difficult problem that I don't have an answer to.
But maybe it's a net positive. Don't spend all day on one platform. And the dumb jokes are nice for being less serious all the time. As long as there is still good conversation
Bro, we've had like 3 dozen memes at the top about Taylor Swift's airplane just in the last week. We are not exactly avoiding what I just complained about. So I guess it'll be okay
For anyone who needs a reminder: user account ≠ human individual user. There are no bot/captcha protections nor IP restrictions on Lemmy. I'd say we have less than 1 million actual human individual users.
I think it's grown quite a bit though. Lots more posts, votes, conversation.
Facts, having been here since the API shit went down, i have seen a LOT more engagement on the platform compared to july 2023
I would imagine that if bots accounted for so much traffic, we would see more steep vertical growth in numbers
Sweet when are we gonna IPO?
By the way the CIA just called to ask if anyone knows who controls this place and if they want a free tour of the MIT server closet.
Monthly Active Users are unfortunately down for the past several months in a row. Something more needs to happen.
The comparison of users to active monthly users sounds about right .... 10 million users with about 1 million active monthly users
The usual ratio of lurkers to creators .. 10 to 1 ... the majority of everyone just browses no matter which platform it is ... it's the same in any social circle since the dawn of time ... there's only a small group of creators and everyone else just like to watch / read / listen
It’s interesting to see how big the Elon musk twitter takeover affected these numbers. The Reddit exodus is so tiny in comparison. Worth noting that the numbers kept going up after that.
Are they active users?
Nope, that's gotta just be registered users. We're kidding ourselves and don't even have 200k active users
*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *
Are they bots pretending to be people?
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
You think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
Like most of us, I'd love to see more active users. But the limited quantity is of much better quality here. Reddit is a cesspool of cliques and groupthink.
This is probably more appropriate for c/fediverse
You'll have to specify which server because lemmy still cannot show all posts on all server in /c/fediverse
In my opinion the biggest problem on lemmy
That's pretty awesome! It will be interesting to see if we get a noticeable influx with all the moronic moves reddit is making. Here's hoping!
Wouldn't count on it. I was curious what people saying about the IPO news and checked comments. "Where will we go now?“ comes up quite often and very few people even mention Lemmy, at least in the post I looked at.
And I don't think that's bad, I'd rather like users who want to be here and not getting pushed here.
If not Lemmy, what else? Last summer I looked around and Lemmy seemed to be by far the largest that wasn’t on a single topic (ex, Hacker news)
There are a bunch of alternatives like Tildes and Raddle, but they are tiny in comparison. Lemmy is the place to be if you want a reddit-style platform.
