On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

      • bradmont@lemmy.caEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        Forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and ever twirling, twirling toward freedom!

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            They lost me when they multi acct/IP banned me over being super critical over how far they strayed from Aaron’s vision of what reddit is supposed to be.

            Also they are banning low level pr0n subs as a precursor to the tumblr purges to make them look good to investors.

          • Erk@cdda.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Agreed on the sleeping better. There are things it had that Lemmy doesn’t but honestly I never want this site to catch all the way up. Reddit had become bad for me.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            1 year ago

            I’m still on reddit, but now its in the context of a saboteur/partisan. IP ban me, thats funny like clown shoes. I’m a human hand grenade.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    621·
    1 year ago

    I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I’m on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we’ve hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.

    Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

    I’m not sure how Reddit did it, but they’d show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

      The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it’s bothering them too.

    • PutangInaMo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can’t get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it’s like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don’t want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).

      • stoiclime@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Ah, I see. I’ve never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.

          • static_motion@programming.devEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.

            • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

              • stoiclime@lemm.eeEnglish
                21·
                1 year ago

                Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

              • static_motion@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

                • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you’re not careful enough.

    • Kelteseth@feddit.deEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in…

      • Not A Bird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Chronological timeline doesn’t really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.

        • Rambler@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that’s the case.

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    1 year ago

    Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.

    • JustAThought@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?

      • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        It’s just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.

        Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.

        For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).

        • JustAThought@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!

          • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i’m unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.

            Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It’s also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i’ve used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.

          • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, it’s actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.

  • badbytes@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, I’m very thankful.

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
    306·
    1 year ago

    Wow its Crazy, I think this is the end of an era for centralized social media. #fuckyoufacebook #fuckyoureddit #fuckyoutwitter

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      end of an era

      … is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.

      It’s more accurate to say beginning of a new era where decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle.

    • koorool@feddit.deEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      Most people don’t care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what’s convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.

      None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.

      • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Well then you got a job to do. Send them meme links from lemmy , mastodon etc . The curious ones will find their way to fediverse.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.

      • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hahaa…you can also put a face using any .webp file so that I can say fuck you too. Easy to do it using a PC

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Just to clarify, this wouldn’t account for people making multiple accounts, right? I know people who have a mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account.

    • GonzoVeritas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      It most likely triple counts users like me. I have a Mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account, (all under the same username), but those would be counted as 3 Fediverse accounts. I think the metrics to look at are posts and comments.

    • Navarian@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Hey, honestly I’m unsure. Though my gut instinct would be that it does include those instances, hadn’t considered it.

      • OpenStars@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        The number of users dropping in June when many bot accounts were removed, and then rising again at the same time that >1500 new servers were added, while MAU does not rise at the same rate, seems to suggest that many are in fact likely bots?

        However, the MAU is rising, so that indeed is a sign of health even if the precise amount of traffic by humans is unknown.

        And bot accounts serve useful purposes too, sometimes posting more worthwhile content than many humans.:-)

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      The user numbers on every site includes multiple accounts.

  • Zoldyck@discuss.onlineEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Great news! I wonder how many people have more than one account. I just made my second one because my ‘main’ server is down a lot lately.

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I had a total of 3 initially and now I’m just down to one, barring an outage of my main instance.

    • gondwana@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Same here. I think we would see tools and features that would facilitate switching your server.

    • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      same, but found an instance local to me thats actually half active which was surprising!

  • squidzorz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise

    I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    It’s been great seeing the community grow. Hope this keeps up at a sustainable rate until Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. become mainstays.