How many millions of users does it have? How many posts? How active are they?
Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?
“Millions of users” is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small – assuming you’re interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active “Lemmy” is is entirely dependent on which topics you’re interested in.
There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don’t get too large.
Hasn’t Lemmy sort of already accomplished that both with federated servers and communities?
No. Federation means I’m on a mbin serner and still interacting with lemmy. If a community goes big there is no way to enforce who goes to which split.
All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so
I run into a lot of the same names, but I think that’s fine (if not preferable)
I find it’s about 5 pages in, sometimes as little as three depending on whether or not someone on lemmynsfw started a new community and self-spammed it.
I’ve never seen nsfw stuff on Lemmy actually, neither did I see star trek
I used to see non-stop NSFW stuff about a year ago, but it seems better now.
neither did I see star trek
I don’t believe you.
NSFW is probably a matter of instance and preferences (not sure if filtering NSFW might be enabled by default)
But star trek? What the hell? That seems to be one of the largest communities on the entire platform, and with high quality content and lots of interaction, how did you not see it? Is your instance defederated or something?
neither did I see star trek
Lucky you
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There’s enough shit posts to keep most people happy.
Amen
There are dozens of us?
Dozens!
Maybe even several dozens
There are dozens of @Blaze@feddit.org.
I plead guilty
At least a dozen right?
The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012
“Do you know about our lord and savior, Linux? Let me tell you about it…”
Well actually we use Arch btw…
Also, technically...
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
😂
I use Ubuntu. Wtf are you dorks gonna do about it?
Active enough 🤷♂️
So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere
It’s a feature, I’m gonna try to remember people’s names more
Some clients (at least Connect and Voyager on Android) have a user tagging feature, so I’ve been tagging people I see over and over or trolls, or whatever. It’s really handy to start to easily see who’s around and posting.
You’re one of us too!
To be fair, that happens on Reddit as well.
These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick. A ranking of ‘user-recognition’ would be fun. Though obviously impractical.
Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn’t know of them before this week. I’ve seen your username far more, for example.
True true. I think Lemmy.ml tends to be more insular than most instances though? e.g. the default sort is Local rather than All. Like basically for people who already had most of their Fediverse needs met, there was less need to join communities across the wider range?
I don’t know enough to say if it’s more insular or not, I don’t know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but we’re definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.
You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really don’t know.
Well it is one of the top 10 instances, and defederated from almost no other instances, so it definitely is rather well-known:-).
I’ll make sure to remember your name moving forward. Your current ranking: Awesome
I do
Yeah, but you’re like the community directory, you know everything 😂
First time I hear this ha ha 😂
These sort of comments make me wonder who is reading usernames. I barely ever look because it doesn’t matter except in reply threads.
I usually passively recognize them. Even more if there is an avatar
I originally found it surprising how often you run into the same names, feels a lot more small town than reddit in that way.
These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick.
I wonder that too. I know I have seen yours, but not enough to dislike you if that means anything lol.
I recognize yours
Heyo!
So do I!
The active user base is trending slightly downward as a few instances have shut down recently but the amount of registered users is steadily increasing so those trends will reverse as the largest barrier to entry is just knowing about Lemmy and creating an account.
Users: 467k
MAU: 42k
Posts: 10.8m
This active
About 0.04 million monthly active users
Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.
40k users is huge. Remember, lemmy is not profit driven. We don’t need to grow at all costs, we can grow naturally and sustainably.
…I kinda like it right now. Some communities of less than a 1000 have much more human responses. It nice. And not just from one server.
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
A Lemmy community with 100 active members is more likely to be 100 active humans than a subreddit with 10,000 members is, based on the last time I went to Reddit: it was so, so clear that everything was either ChatGPT, or a repost of shit even I had already seen, or was just otherwise obviously not an authentic human sharing something interesting.
So yeah, not entirely surprising.
It might also be that we were some of the prolific posters on reddit. I heard somewhere that the top couple percent of posters on reddit used to make a majority of the new posts. And the rest lurk
That’s probably true, though I’m not sure who has ever actually made a legitimate determination since you’d have to remove the non-humans from the numbers first and, well, Reddit isn’t going to tank their MAU numbers by ever releasing that kind of stat.
It’s also not helped once you hit a certain size and the nature of scale takes over and the level of toxicity goes up: even in small groups, when a new person shows up and asks the same question for the 20th time, they start taking shit for it. If you’re in a BIG group, it turns into a giant dogpile, and people stop asking questions because who the hell likes that kind of response, so you end up with a lot of people who are subscribed to something, but none of whom actually contribute at all.
The density of quality users and interactions on Lemmy nowadays reminds me of Reddit’s earlier days
40000 is enough to be a functioning social media. most fediverse softwares don’t have that much. Sure, it is not enough to have discussions over non mainstream stuff, but there are still enough people for a variety of topics.
We’re actually at about 43k
43.001k! I just joined with my own instance in my over engineered lab 🧪
Welcome!
I would have, but they asked in millions and I was being cheeky.
I don’t find it pathetic, I’m quite happy with it. Sure, I’d be happy to get more but in no rush.
I’m practically a fixture on Lemmy, and I view everything sorted by newest comments so I see only new posts and posts actively being participated in through replies and I’d say it’s only slightly less active than Reddit appearance wise. Surely there is less things being posted over all, but I can just refresh the page every few seconds and get entirely new posts almost every single time, barring a few hours in the middle of the week.
I know that someone has a statistic site for Lemmy that could actually show you exactly what you wanna know, but I haven’t saved the URL and don’t know it off the top of my head.
Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There’s a reason why old forums’ only sorting method was thread bumping.
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Reddit is very quiet lately, probably due to school breaks
The dips I see on Lemmy are probably from people actually working. I at least have a job where nobody cares if I use my phone because I can still work while fucking around on it, so long as it’s not in the dining room where customers can see me.
If you’ve got time to lean you got time to clean.
Now the trick is to make sure you lean with a cloth or a broom in your hand. That way everyone thinks you are cleaning.
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Oh yeah definitely
The answer is (currently) ~42k monthly active users.
Interesting. Active users in decline, posts and comments on the up.
School breaks probably have an impact
I’m an active user who post and comment regularly, and I would say that the experience is very similar to Reddit. Except for less adds and smaller numbers on the main/all page. The experience is probably very different if you’re mainly a passive consumer of content.
Though I’ve never been active in “large” subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I don’t know what I’m missing.
The main deficiency is niche and hobby communities, they’re mostly empty or missing on Lemmy.
This is about right. Its a great general interest thing and you have some really great folks but you don’t have a ton of pathfinder people talking about pathfinder or sto people talking about sto on an sto sub, etc. so we have a general gaming community that is pretty active but if you want to know day to day whats happening with a particular game. not so much.
You have ads? Where do you see them? Not sure if I’m being ignorant and not recognizing them or did something right that made me not see them
Ok, I rephrase. Zero ads on Lemmy. 🙂
Some Lemmy phone apps have ads.
The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.
Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.
That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it’s better than bigger forums because you don’t have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.
I can usually, on bad days when I’m not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That’s about the sweet spot, imo.
Not sure, but compared to about a year ago, it seems more active.
It feels most active the month after June 12, 2023. Then it kinda got quieter
According to the fedidb, it’s about the same.
