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FWIW Lemmy has fully replaced Reddit as my go-to toilet reading material, and I’m sure there are many other lurkers around here who don’t post much and thus don’t show up in these stats. The more niche communities are still lacking in content, yes, but these things are best left to grow organically over a long period of time to maintain quality. It was the same on Reddit too before the enshittification escalated.
Zoomed out graph including some months before the join wave
Users/month are relatively stable now at 33x users/month compared to pre join wave (users/month is people who have posted or commented)
Seriously, people need to stop getting in their heads about this shit. We are doing awesome, we can sit around and let lemmy slow loose users for a longggg time before we have even begun to actually be backtracking.
This is what winning looks like, it’s just the realistic version of winning.
This whole section of the graph will be that invisible part on the left in a couple years. Going up and down is normal as long as it’s trending up.
Beautiful
Here’s the thing though… I’ve been on Reddit for over a decade before Lemmy, and whilst there may be less interaction the interactions themselves have been far more sincere. People are more willing to engage, and even with this random comment there’s a chance someone would comment below.
The community feel of Lemmy is something, at least I’ve found, Reddit had lost a very long time ago.
Sort of a quality Vs quantity thing I guess?
It’s sometimes unbearable on Lemmy. I have stated that using Linux is very hard for noobs and it’s not useful still for general audience. I have got so many downvotes just because of this, you won’t believe. It feels like community is Linux users , who are acting as nerds or are nerds, and they are somewhat inclusive of outsiders. Lemmy feels like a club for only the so called intellectuals and they want to barr regular person getting in. This is also evident with Lemmy worlds or alternative of subbreddits. If you try to find some they still don’t exists. Further Lemmy is very hard to understand , even I struggle to understand how it works. But the access to different Lemmy’s is good, via boost app. The Lemmy worlds though they don’t look as polished as Reddit does but that’s cause Lemmy is evolving. So in summary Quality of posts, strong sense of non inclusivity by lemmye’rs , understanding of how Lemmy works and old feel of Lemmy are the reasons is keeping people out.
I feel you. I don’t give one single fuck about Linux. My lemmy experience got better when I filtered out Linux across the board. The “hive mind” here is way more super-geek than reddit ever was. I’m a craftsman, just about the only reason I turn my
computerChromebook on is to send invoices. And that makes a lot of lemmy mad it seems. I feel way more like this guy here than I ever did on reddit.Same here
If Linux fandom is your biggest gripe, I’d say we’re in pretty good shape here.
In fact kind of reminds me of how Reddit was back then.
well all that’s just like, your opinion man.
I bring the quality. 😊
in awe
It’s novel for sure. But I miss being able to scream into a void
You still CAAAAAAAAANNN
Scream not into the void, I may scream back.
Then it’s not a void
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The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn’t necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That’s all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today’s front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.
Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.
In some ways a lot more responsive as well. The news that Kissinger died was all over Lemmy for hours before I noticed one post about it crack the front page of Reddit, for example.
Yeah the stream of stuff hitting my front page is a lot higher in quality and volume in the last few months. I don’t post on reddit anymore but still visit for content and I am doing that less and less lately.
I’m finding the opposite…
Lots of posts made by bots, with majority top level comments being short quips and attempts at jokes as opposed to discussion. So many discussions devolve into ad hominems almost immediately.
Just like Reddit.
It’s a social media phenomenon I think. The lowest common denominator will always dominate unless communities push against it.
I’ve found myself getting frustrated with the number of lemmy communities that are essentially just bots mirroring the respective reddit sub.
The lemmit.online bot specifically mirrors a lot of reddit, block that one account and the bot content drops significantly.
I don’t care I’m here to stay. Only community I miss is formuladank for F1 shitposting. Been trying to get it going here but no traction yet. Everything else, Lemmy 4 life.
F1
No traction
Nice
So dank!
Bwoah
Don’t let yourself be fooled. Lemmy is doing great. It’s got a lot more user than half a year ago and it will continue to grow. You should look at the bigger perspective here. People are starting to understand the point of the Fediverse more and more and it will eventually take over enshitified platforms such as Reddit
I’m quite happy with the small town pub atmosphere myself. Good prices, good banter, the occassional bar fight… Just my style.
I like your style…
Yeah the threadiverse has really improved for me in the last few months. It seems a lot more active with solid discussion happening.
I like that I can somewhat recognize usernames across all the lemmy post I comment in. Im not sure if anyone really notices me or recognizes my username and goes ‘Oh hey its smokeydope again’ but I do that for some other active lemmy users and it starts to feel like we are all acquaintances working together to make an interesting experience for eachother and not just competing for attention without adknowledging eachother.
Oh hey it’s dopeysmoke again.
Yeah… and sometimes you find some uttery shitty people who use multiple account to comment shame you or think they are better than you while having a self conversation on your post ! Uhhhg !
Oh I see you all the time, you’re something of a local legend around here.
Imma here, just a lurker
I’m contributing because I’m a bit of a meme repository and I get a more positive reception here than I do on Reddit.
Lemmy is in a healthy state.
For anybody interested, the monthly active users including voters is
131,150(131k)The one in the graph only takes into account people who have made a post or comment
Edit: The halfyear active users including voters is
253,166(253k)Ooh, that’s my preferred global population! That’s a good sign!
This is a great metric-explainer. What impressive numbers. Now we really know how successful this migration has been.
That engagement ratio is super high when you look at it this way. 118k-ish posters/commenters and 131k total users? Damn. Good job Lemmy.
The 118k is half year aka 6 months
The one around 35k is month
Still though - like I know it was boosted by the reddit exodus and so the 6mos stats are inflated, but still not too shabby.
I don’t care that the fediverse has a ton of traffic. It may not have the most users, but it definitely has the best
Frustrating because of all the decentralized platforms lemmy feels the closest to the original. I’m still on Reddit because there’s more there but the app fucking sucks so much.
I go there to passively consume short videos of stuff that isn’t here, but fuck if I’m gonna comment or vote. I don’t even sign in.
I truly don’t mean this as a derogative comment, but as someone who just uses the website, and not an app, do you feel like you’re absolutely need to use an app to use Lemmy?
I think they meant the Reddit app.
Well any app would still be my question, but some of them work on Lemmy as well.
i comment more than monthly on lemmy
On my phone both lines are the same color.
damn imagine if this is how you found out you were blue-green color blind, I hope that your phones color rendering is just really shitty
Much better time than say, defusing a bomb!
How woke!
I think its because we aren’t allowed by default to post images, which I completely understand after what happened back a couple months ago. I’ve been using Lemmy for more then 4 months actively but yet I still don’t have permission to post pictures because of the fact that I’m too lazy to even try to get it enabled. This is a major reason why we aren’t seeing a lot of content.
Also, this tends to be mostly a leftist leaning app, so maybe some people get drawn away.
No images is I think a lemm.ee-only thing, other instances are still allowing it. It was severely size-limited even before the whole CSAM situation to save on storage, and, IIRC, paraphrasing sunaurus: “Imgur exists.”
being left leaning is not the issue, but when opinions even slightly to the right of extreme left are censored and removed, it doesn’t encourage participation or conversation
Where is that happenening outside of lemmygrad? I have literally never once seen that happening outside of that place…
Though it happens literally 24/7 on alt-right social media or reddit /r/conservative 😂 you can speedrun any% ban time by saying “I think covid was handled poorly” lol
Plenty of liberal techbros around on lemmy. Also are you aware of the Nazi Bar phenomenon.
I’m liberal, but no techbro. Try saying something remotely luddite and watch what happens.
Iron pans >>> Teflon.
Gas stove >>> induction stove
Hell no. Gas stoves heat the air more than they heat food, they’re dirty (both in terms of emissions and being a bugger to clean) and not a single bit faster. With ordinary resistive electric you might’ve had half a point, gas has its pros and cons there, but induction is superior to all in all relevant metrics. Well, modulo woks that’s a different topic but do you even have one.
My point has been proven. You fell right into my trap.
I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.
But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.
It’s starting to be clear that the whole “ML - Leninism Marxism” was actually a big part of Lemmy.
I’m a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don’t feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist…
Extreme leftist politics, memes, linux, a weirdly active Star Trek community (comparatively) and blocking furry/anime porn communities daily. That’s been my experience so far.
a weirdly active Star Trek community (comparatively)
How so?
