I’ve noticed this in many places in the Lemmyverse in my first few days here. When first signing up almost all the instances were listed as having 2 or less active users. The biggest was Lemmy.ml at something around 1000. Then I’ve seen those numbers listed in other places including a post yesterday that is supposed to help bring redditors to Lemmy.

These numbers will just get most people to turn around and not even consider Lemmy as an alternative.

I saw a GIF today showing the growth of user accounts on Lemmy instances and Lemmy.ml (for example) was over 30000 and many of the other servers were in the 100s, approaching 1000. That’s a HUGE difference and indicates a community that is 10 times (or more) more active than the initial numbers presented indicate.

Any thoughts? Am I out to lunch?

  • FuzzyDunlop@slrpnk.netEnglish
    214·
    2 years ago

    First, stop posting to lemmy.ml, the admins there are crazy. Don’t give them more content.

    We redditors have waaaay enough number to populate our own instances without having to rely on the moderation of crazy people. Look at the population of beehaw skyrocketing since the last few days, we are the king makers. lemmy has never seen such an influx of members.

    So pick whatever instance you prefer and we plant our tent there, and we path the way for the redditors who will inevitable follow us. Don’t feed them the same horrible experience we endured for the last few days of being exposed to the crazy moderation, the crazy putin apologists and such, we need to guide the ex-redditors to our instances, where we completely keep the crazy population away.

    Hey, what about joining an EU instance, so when we click “politics” we don’t have 90% american stories? Beehaw is already filled with americans. Do you want more american politics, more american gun stories and more woke war, more nba stories? I don’t.

    I’m on solarpunks now (https://slrpnk.net/), which is hosted in Portugal. Come here guys, we recreate our reddit from scratch with a taste of Europe.

    • BarbarianEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Wow. Barging into the house built by the admins here (they’re also the devs who built the software) and saying “This is mine now”. Interesting move.

      I mean, it’s federated for a reason, you do you, but that’s quite the disrespect.

        • BarbarianEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          Haven’t seen a ban yet that was out of line. I’m going to continue posting and commenting on communities here until/unless I don’t like the direction the communities are going.

          Set up your own communities, and if it really is that bad you’ll have traffic. If not, then not. Don’t go barking orders at people.

          • FuzzyDunlop@slrpnk.netEnglish
            15·
            2 years ago

            Haven’t seen a ban yet that was out of line

            Maybe you haven’t paid a lot of attention?

            Set up your own communities, and if it really is that bad you’ll have traffic. If not, then not. Don’t go barking orders at people.

            If you want to remain passive then good for you, you do you. But I won’t let redditors be mislead by numbers. There are a lot of them asking questions right now and I want them to know that no, it’s not just them, something is really odd on this network and we are perfectly able to setup our own communities.

            edit:

            As I was checking my box after answering you I just got this message. This is the kind of “content” we get on lemmy.ml. This is the tone of the main instance. I leave you with your new friends.

            Yes I don’t support Zelensky so what? He is not a leader, he has no background in politics and military. This is a clown who played guitar and piano with his dick. He doesn’t risk anything, just showing off.

            • Johnnypneumoniac@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I’m new here and I’m not sure how I’d know about bans. I didn’t actually know anything about the stuff you’ve mentioned in this thread!

    • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Aaarrh. It hurts. There are better ways of negociation (should we need that even) than defamation and boycott. I mean, give people some room to grow from experience, will you. This kind of divisive agitation is exactly unnecessary here. (And btw you are posting this kind of gratitude directly in a developer’s public forum)

      That said, it may be argued if the main devs should in fact also be admins over a lot of large communities or if they should rather concentrate on dev stuff and move the rest of the communities elsewhere, now that there are many more instances available. I have read one dev here (forgot who it was) a couple of days ago, that they do not at all aspire to be in power and that’s why they do appreciate that more users get active on other instances. How’s that for a start?