The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 小时前

    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

    • dkc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 小时前

      Yeah! I’ve been doing the same. I actually find myself thinking “I haven’t participated in a conversation in over a week. I better find something to comment on.”

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 小时前

      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™ 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.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      6 小时前

      Likewise

      I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here

      I’ve been busy over here lol

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      6 小时前

      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.

    • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      7 小时前

      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

  • WamGams@lemmy.caEnglish
    125·
    8 小时前

    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.)

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 小时前

      Similar for gaming, “dead game” on a game that has way more than enough people to fill a lobby still. Or even worse if its a single player game.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      66·
      8 小时前

      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.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        2 小时前

        I love enabling the display of the instance of other users. It lets you realize how many small and niches instances are out there!

      • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        7 小时前

        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

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        7 小时前

        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.

          • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
            9·
            4 小时前

            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]

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          7 小时前

          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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      7 小时前

      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.

      • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
        17·
        7 小时前

        We saw a spike of users for the papaya snark community when they were banned off reddit, I think it’s that.

        • [email protected]English
          4·
          7 小时前

          Why’d they get banned? That insta girl take issue with her image being sullied? The other general snark subs are still around.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      7·
      8 小时前

      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.

  • [email protected]English
    17·
    8 小时前

    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!

    • imaqtpieAEnglish
      26·
      7 小时前

      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.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      10·
      8 小时前

      Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.

      • mapto@feddit.bgEnglish
        9·
        7 小时前

        I’ve always wondered why active-but-silent didn’t count. If you bother to login, you’re active to me.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          9·
          6 小时前

          Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.