How big is lemmy nowadays
I discovered lemmy back when reddit started to charge for their API. However upon taking a look at it, it seemed that apart from like 8 communities,there was not much going on elsewhere. Things seem to have changed since then, quite a lot of active communities these days. So how many users do yall reckon lemmy has now? Is it close to 5M? or perhaps even higher?
🫲🏻====😃====🫱🏻 about this big.
🍌 for scale.
For Americans, that's about 30 toothpaste length
Can I have that in rods and furlongs?
The worse two things to happen to lemmy when the reddit api migration happened is people created clones of their subreddits multiple times on different instances but when it didn't take off immediately they just abandoned it. The second was bot posting no one is going to engage when op is not real and thus you have zombie communities with zero comments. So it looks like a ghost town instead of a letting grow organically.
When you are almost the only one posting for more thsn 6 months, it make sens that s lot of community owners stop posting
not disagreeing with your overall premise, but do clearly labeled bot news aggregator communities need much interaction right now?
I read many of the articles on bot feeds and will sometimes comment on ones that I think should get a few more eyeballs. others do the same and I appreciate their prodding as well. for my usecase lemmy in its current state has been absolutely wonderful, and I am enjoying watching it evolve.
Yeah I'm glad it works for you but at that point you are using lemmy like a RSS feed reader and at that point just use an RSS feed reader. But my point was trying to explain the lack of engagement that drives more content. Sometimes the post is secondary to comments in some cases.
I remember in the early days people saying that Lemmy wasn't succeeding. Very frustrating to hear because it was like the very early days. And look at it now!
There's literally dozens of us
It’s the same 12 of us just commenting on each other’s posts lol
I'm here too - better make it a bakers dozen 😎
If by dozens you mean 50,000?
It's about 50k active users. Communities are generally less important than instances.
MAUs are users that post or comment right? Or does voting also make you a MAU?
The number is correct according to the existing crawlers. Also i wonder if lemmy users are slightly more active on average than reddit users.
For more numbers https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
I know I engage way more on lemmy than I ever did on reddit. I think I posted more on here in the first year then I did the whole 11 years on reddit. Lemmy reminds me more of the old forum days than reddit or Digg. I wish lemmy would have followed the forum model more with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme like how the star trek instance does it vs everyone trying to be an mini reddit. Also I know it's ironic me saying that with my account being from .world
Oh wow, if thats the case then I have overestimated the numbers by alot. Seems like we're still in the nichest of the niche
It's much bigger than it used to be, and is relatively stable now.
Mastodon is the biggest fediverse platform and that has just short of 900k MAU (monthly active users) with around 8M registered users.
In terms of non activity pub but federated protocols, matrix is probably the biggest with a user count in the hundreds of millions. They also market very well to goverments and the public sector tho so they get lots of users from massive deployments with millions of users on one server.
You can be +1. ;)
Keep in mind that these are active users, many networks with huge numbers have registered accounts, but most have no activity.
In any case, be the change you want to see, help the network grow by providing content and activity, you will always be welcomed.
Can you ELI5 for me why Instances are more important than communities?
Doesn't matter as much for lemm.ee as it's more of a utility than an instance, but I see instances more like traditional "subreddits" and comms within them as "hashtags" and categories. Hexbear's "games" comm is very different from Lemmy.mls, as an example.
I just created !dullsters@dullsters.net but not taking signups so you have to use an account from a federated instance.
Quality > quantity. Lemmy still has some trolls and the usual misunderstandings, but people are here bc they want to be, not bc its the only option
I agree! I definitely prefer Lemmy over Reddit, for sure.
It’s small enough I recognize users all the time, which is kind of nutty, and I’m not even a heavy user I think.
Personally I rarely read usernames on lemmy and reddit
Most of the time, I recognize people fondly, too!
You're such a light user that when I try to look at your post history, my client says you don't exist!
That’s by design! I rotate alt accounts every now and then to keep my footprint light. :-)
you can see all the numbers in sites like https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy its definitelly better than first time I stumble upon lemmy
https://lemmyverse.net/ in there you can search instances and communities, and If you Have an account on a y lemmy servwe you can use Its search function or if You use clients as Jerboa you can search communities with Its search function. I follow a lot of communities on Lemmy most of them are not as actives as their peers on Reddit but there are
I guess the question is “is bigger better for an internet community?” Like, old forums were a lot more interesting then today’s giants (Reddit etc), even if not much was posted from day to day