The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift's armpits
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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...is this for real? I don't want to check, but I also can't tell if this is a joke.
I just checked, it exists but has 2500 subs
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.
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
Likewise
I've literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I've been busy over here lol
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
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.
Same boat here
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.
lmao posting in communtities from my different accounts (not to the same communities, like alts for keeping notifcations on topics seperate) to help build up my future lurking places
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.
On Lemmy, two's a crowd (or a flamewar).
Slow and steady wins the race.
I find this true of so few actual races.
Wow. Absolute legend
Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.[2] Despite attempting the event again in later years, Young was unable to repeat this performance or claim victory again.[8]
Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the age of the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.
Edit: Okay, I read the rest of the article. Quite a ride.
It was our evolutionary success as a human animal. We were never the fastest, strongest or even the most numerous at the start. But working slowly as a cooperative community, we conquered every liveable space on the planet. We can do the same online.
Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it
Someone fetch me my spear
And my axe!
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
Nice graph
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.
That incident completely flew under my radar. Unbelievable that Reddit did that.
Why’d they get banned? That insta girl take issue with her image being sullied? The other general snark subs are still around.
Thank you for providing this informative graph! I will be saving it for future use.
That’s great to see we’re spiking a bit recently just not as much as the days of the Reddit api shutdown situation.
You could use this graph to investigate the incidents that have occurred with the user spikes.
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.
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
I've always wondered why active-but-silent didn't count. If you bother to login, you're active to me.
Logins aren't federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
👈 Hey!
whee!!! let the rollercoaster climb for the reddit decline!
Cue the 'too the moon' rocket but with the btc logo removed and the Fediverse icon added.
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
They’re from https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.
Not bad.
We were hanging around 43k mau for the longest time.
Noice, I wonder if Hexbear going down helped at all.
Tbh not a chance