The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
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
Yeah I regularly spend hours here every day with no lack of content. For example, did you see the guy with the thermal camera a couple days ago? Facisinating.
Wow! I saw the initial post before all the follow up images were posted, thanks for bringing this back to my attention
Ok, I had to resubscribe after seeing this one. Lol
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).
Yes but add in a third Lemming and it is no longer a flamewar, it becomes a theatrical performance.
NO YOU’RE WRONG
*dons a Viking helmet and in a deep bariton sings* No they’re nooooot 🎶
I grew up when the Internet was essentially a bunch of forum communities and 10k people was a lot of people. Something Awful felt massive with 300k registered users.
You don’t need 150,000,000 people on a subreddit to have a good community.
Communities are far better when you can recognize the names of people and remember then from previous interactions. On Reddit, you’ll probably never talk to the same person twice.
You can’t have a community full of bots if there are only a few hundred people who all know each other.
I love enabling the display of the instance of other users. It lets you realize how many small and niches instances are out there!
I only thought it would be an issue my first week of Lemmy, using it for a month now I really like the smaller community.
Our content is definitely on the low end for niche topics. Subs either don’t exist, or there might be like 4 members.
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.
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 !android@lemdro.id and did a highlight by highlight match thread on !cricket@lemmy.world once. That last one was painful af.
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
Noice. Tbh I didn’t post too much on /r/Android as I liked being a mod on it as I’m a huge Android nerd; I think people would have called mod abuse or something if they only saw my posts in the feed lol. People liked to be overtly critical of the modding anyway on that subreddit.
Oh I didn’t realize you modded r/android. Ping me if you’d like to be a moderator of !android@lemdro.id
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.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Same boat here
The same…boat??? BOAT???
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
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.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
I don’t let that stop me.
If you at least upvote you aren’t lurking as that counts as engagement.
Likewise
I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I’ve been busy over here lol
My app tells me I upvoted you 12 times in the last 10 days. Thank you
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.”
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
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
Even though i have been much more active here than on reddit, i have way less karma
Every time i tried to calculate the percentage of how much less, it said something about dbzer0.com for some reason
Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only…
You make I upload? Deal?
So much possibility…
…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
They’ve Streisanded it. Just the previous mention jumped the numbers 25%!
All part of my master plan
https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it’s just have 2000 user?
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
You can try posting it to !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , not sure how well it will be received
I’m holding out till we get taytays back of the knees sub! That’s truely the peak god tier content! Looool
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).
Everyone is comparing active users to total users though, Lemmy’s total users is about 10x the number of actives users at 477k. I think you have to post or comment to be marked active?
Think it was changed to include upvotes/downvotes. Could be wrong, saw it on a similar thread.
Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.
Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Welcome back!
Good :) welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech.
Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Welcome back
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!
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.
Why’d they get banned? That insta girl take issue with her image being sullied? The other general snark subs are still around.
That incident completely flew under my radar. Unbelievable that Reddit did that.
Nice graph
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.
Link to source?
I am the source.
Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.
I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.
Welcome!
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I’m part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I’m part of the crowd.
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post.
“Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits or show some backbone. Im sorry for even considering a 12 hour protest, Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter. I don’t miss my old phone app for reddit at all…”
wipes away a single suppressed tear for the death of boost/sync/whatever and their own lost dignity when spez isn’t looking
Seriously good on you for being a trendsetter with a basic shred of self respect who knows when to tap out of a bad/abusive situation, Echofox. I wonder just how much more the water needs to be boiled before even the joke characature above gets tired of reddits BS. Maybe never.
Hey thanks, I do lean a little hard on the self deprecating humor sometimes.
Reddit has been getting worse for years, and the comments there are so adversarial and insincere.
Users definitely can get sick of bad sites, what happened with X shows that. Their user base is a small fraction of what it was a few years ago.
I’m definitely liking it here though!
Oh baby, if you wanted to get away from adversarial sarcastic comments you sure came to the right place.
Internet is going to be internet, but this place is like 10% as adversarial as reddit from my experience so far. I haven’t even had anybody DM me to end myself yet. At reddit I got those for saying my favorite game was Total Annihilation.
If you want to be unique start using friendica lmao
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
Which community is that so I can block it?
Hah, beat you to the joke by 4 minutes, nerd!
Honestly, that’s like a millisecond in Lemmy terms, so well done.
I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
This person fucks.
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
I have been temporarily banned from a new account I made a while ago to return after my permabanned last summer. I am seriously thinking of fully ditching reddit save for a few special nerdy interests (and porn).
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
That’s why I’m here.
Welcome!
Welcome back!
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn’t auto perm ban me “ban evasion,” and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn’t want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it’s clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It’s like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should’ve been made long ago.
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
🫶 Its hard to give up all that history
No history is gone, all your posts and comments stay up lol, you have to manually edit them or use a third party service, too late now. They still have any helpful info you gave.
I manually edited mine before deleting
Reddit still has them. And already rolled back edits where useful
Yeah, it was tough. I did clean it out a couple of times over the years, but it’d been a while when I deleted it.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Gotta start making them and posting just to get the ball rolling a little, you can always turn over moderating if someone wants it. I need to take my own advice when I’m bored.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
