yup but its a good size from my experience when engaging with it overall. if we get larger we will definately need more niche things.
On paper, Lemmy does look like there’s a lot. In practice, there’s not really a lot that reflects the total number of registrations.
Reddit, even with its bots and whatever, still has a large amount of active users compared to Lemmy.
Yes. Go up to someone on the street and ask what Lemmy is.
That’s fine, though, we’re not going anywhere, and we can only grow.
it can easily shrink
How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don’t know what that would be right now.
Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything, or (like has happened with other, older monopolies) be broken up during a dynastic feud. I see some strong parallels to how Linux has outgrown proprietary alternatives over the decades, and arguably it’s even harder for an OS.
That hasn’t been the trend though.
A particle on an object.
Not even comparable. /r has more users and bots.
Lemmy (also mastodon, in effect fediverse) is about quality and interaction, rather than consumption. So userbase being “tiny” is a feature. Here, your posts aren’t buried under karma farming accounts, your comments actually lead to discussions and get replies.
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
Well said, the emphasis here seems to be more about the content rather than the amount of upvotes you can get. But as this community grows so will exploiters as well. Time will tell I guess, but I really enjoy this platform more than any other.
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
are you using an app to do this?
No OC, but i “read you” on fdroid. Imo its the best option I’ve found for mobile.
On desktop there are a lot of options but i dont have a sigular recomendation.
Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?
There are probably lists you can search online but I find that adding /feed or /rss to the URL of a page I want to see updates from does the trick. There is also at least one Firefox add-on that indicates if a page has an RSS feed.
rss feeds
Can u elaborate how you are using it
There are plenty of pointless posts and comments here daily, but let’s hope for a quality future
Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.
It should be noted that social media companies like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc all have major incentives to inflate their user counts (with bots, or counting inactive users). Those user counts are the product that they’re selling to advertisers to set up on their platform.
We don’t have that incentive, in fact its the opposite, we’d rather have less users that are more active, as more users require more moderation resources and time.
That is a valid point. If we take those numbers with a hefty heap of salt, Reddit would still be 10x or 100x bigger than Lemmy.
Atleast we are growing steadily. Never heard of misskey tho
Misskey is like “the default” fediverse software for Japanese and (Asian) ACG (Animation-comic-games) communities.
This side of fediverse is relatively big, but almost their community rarely reach out Western fediverse mostly due to language and law-related stuff. They have unique photography, online comic market, and and various creative centric community that rarely found on mainstream Western fediverse.
In fact, before Mastodon.social, the biggest fediverse instance is Japanese – Pawoo.net. At that time, it was managed by Pixiv (Japanese equivalent of DeviantArt), but later sold to random corpo, the moderation collapse, and now abandoned by its community.
Yup, and Reddit started in 2005 (which is 2 decades ago now) with its large migration in 2010. Lemmy only really got going in 2023, and it’s growing
Misskey is a Mastodon style platform, that is popular in Japan and existed from a while back. They added activitypub support in 2018
bot users? yes!
human users? well, yes.
Assholes? Yes too
You can see some stats here.
1337 you say
Haha. Obvs Lemmy is only for the leet.
Where do you see this chart?
On my phone. (In serious, the link to the picture is in the first comment of this thread)
Lol thanks for clarifying
Pretty interesting how the number of active users per month has been fluctuating up/down but the number of comments and posts per month has been steadily going up
Nice. How often is that updated?
Daily I think. It’s an automated thing.
