Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

  • Omni rizzler@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    If lemmy implement passkey and show all the comments of the post like in piefed with ccp social credit shit. I will hope back to it

  • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    3 months ago

    Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

    Most posts are links to other websites.

    It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

    Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      3 months ago

      Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don’t want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.

      • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          3 months ago

          And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

          Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

          • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            3 months ago

            I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

            The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

            The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

            I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

            We’ll see what happens I guess.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          i think OC started to increase after 45 1st term, thats when people really jumped into social media for all the drama and content, and then found more drama(like livestream, and youtube,etc). i unkowingly used reddit(dint know it existed) around '13-14 ish for a console game. only til drumpf was elected then i moved over, before that i was still on Y’a answers enough.

          • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.

            There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.

            • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning “QUESTIONABLE” subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.

              the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      too bad alot of them are still significant on reddit, and are unlikely to move here, unless they all get banned somehow. we might see more users here if reddit does another ban wave, although i think reddit mightve figured shadowbanning is much more useful.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        most of the banning comes from the bigger subs, not the small niche ones.

        every time i have been banned it’s from political comments in a larger sub. never a niche one. my last ban was for supporting the mayor in a city subreddit. apparently it’s ‘enabling racism’ to mention the race of your mayor in a positive light.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    I’ve only been on Lemmy a few days and i can already tell i like it, but can understand the frustration in figuring out what an instance is, or what a federation is. But i personally have used linux for years, i’m a huge nerd, and i hate the way places like Reddit and facebook are owned by republican idiots who refuse to let people talk poorly about the orange cult leader.

    • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      3 months ago

      Reddits transformation into a Nazi sympathizing shithole was remarklably swift. Don’t get me wrong, that place was going downhill the second they decided their user base was a product, but it pivoted from generic corporate advertising shithole to fascist friendly nuclear waste pit with remarkable speed. So many micro pud incels willying to volunteer for the brown coats, it’s disgusting.

      • sarmale@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Damn, reddit turned nazi now? I haven’t really paid attention to it for some time, what happened?

        • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          3 months ago

          Their heavy “anti violence” push is directed at shutting down dissenters of the current American regime. You can post all the horrific violent things iCE and the admin are doing to your hearts content but if you so much as “hope” an ice agent or Temu Hitler dies, some jackboot licking Nazi sympathizing mod comes to remove your post, because hoping that an evil person dies is apparently the same as violence. I’ve been personally told by one of the admins that hoping someone dies of natural causes is treated as a call to violence, because they’re Nazi sympathizing troglodytes.

          They’re eagerly chugging Goebbels cock at the mere thought of an extra dollar, because they’re Nazi sympathizing capitalist scum. The only thing they deserve is a bullet in the Brain and an unmarked grave in a corn field so they can be useful for once in their miserable existence.

          Also, they continue to allow /r/conservative despite the fact that it might as well be called /r/fascismrecruitmentanddiscussion. If you make 0 effort from keeping fascists from congregating at your site, congrats you’re a fascist site. Get fucked, I hope Reddit burns to the ground in a fantastic flameout as a lesson to all these scumbags.

          Edit: ooh, I just figured out what post actually got my account banned just recently. In response to some Temu Hitler Epstein files distraction theater bullshit I posted the phrase “will someone rid me of this turbulent child rapist?”

          Bam, 3 day ban, upheld by Reddit Nazi admins.

  • brem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    So you’re saying there’s a slim chance the underdog can stick around & possibly become what Reddit was meant to be?

    & The handful of those of us that make memes for this lost creature should continue to do so?

    I always prefer the underdog. Reddit even unbanned me & I’m like “nope, you don’t get to do that. I found a better friend that appreciates me in a more healthy way”

  • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’m actually in a state of confusion over the fediverse, reddit, and social media as a whole atm. I loved switching over to Lemmy because of the foss/decentralizing and lower user count at first. If I see a thread with 1500 comments I’m less likely to interact with it, like trying to hold a meaningful conversation at a concert event.

    Forums and articles are slowing becoming harder to find for information without going through 6 AI pages repeating the same paragraph in 20 different ways without really telling you anything new, so that’s slowly becoming more of a burden. Reddit is so inundated with mainstream now that even a specific trade community just has terrible trash comments that get upvoted and can even drown out a professionals real informational response (like youtube does a lot) but … at least it’s there I suppose.

    Lemmy… well yes this space is “nerdy”, but there’s very few specific nerds. by that I mean like the true nerd definition of someone so into this one niche thing that they completely lose all touch with social ques because their area came up in conversation and they are salivating to talk about it. I just recently got told in the most popular pc build community here that they never really bothered looking at memory speed… I was flabbergasted.

    so idk what I would like to see Lemmy become or the future of these types of sites in general. I forced myself to make that post on the pc build community because I was going through the process and maybe it would help someone out in the future and a little socializing while going through a project seems interesting. But, I have so many other posts I think about and just don’t do because it’s going to be either generic responses or me talking into the void with putting a lot of work into collecting all the data I have and formatting it/etc. Time is always limited, so it’s a battle over priorities and responsibilities.

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all

  • Wrongputbet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Is there a merch store or sumthing we can buy to advertise this awesome place and help support it?

  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    I think the active users per half month might be a more useful metric than total accounts because that includes all the dead accounts.

  • Mereo@piefed.caEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.

    We need to keep this momentum going.

  • Carl N. Yon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    515·
    3 months ago

    Once we KICK THE TANKIES out of the THREADIVERSE we can get these numbers really cranking

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Baby girl, the “tankies” (what does that word even mean anymore?) That you’re so scared of, made the god damn platform you’re on!

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      Tankies are among the most active contributors not only to content, but also to the platforms themselves.

      Lemmy, the very platform you’re currently on, is made by one.

      I’d rather see less left infighting - that will suffice.

      • Carl N. Yon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        3 months ago

        What are you talking about??? Tankies don’t contribute anything they just want empty handouts

        You type like a rentoid.