The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
You’re welcome.
Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again
Submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
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return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cameri@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
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)
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
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.
sma3in@lemmy.world 1 year ago
numbers
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
iowagneiss@midwest.social 1 year ago
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
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.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
🫶 Its hard to give up all thay history
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
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.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
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.
Mio@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Do you have a graph for these numbers?
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Mio@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Nice. The amount of Lemmy servers online are shrinking?
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
If you want to be unique start using friendica lmao
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 1 year ago
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
You know how on reddit people comment to tell you to google, argue, etc. Here they just answer the question or move on, it’s wonderful.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
Like, they’ll answer everything but your question, tell you how you’re wrong and should do something else entirely, here they read your question all the way and actually answer it
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
Suprisingly better for actual conversation, reddit would be like screaming into a void sometimes, any topic you’re interested in if it doesn’t already have a community, make one from a popular general purpose instance and start posting, people will reply and see it, and it’ll potentially hit the front page equivalent letting more eyes see it. Reddit was no longer showing me interesting niches, I had to already know about it to find a sub and get it on my feed, so many interesting subs I only learned about because I got into the hobby outside of reddit have more potential to be visible on the main feed here. Reddit algorithm right now is a roller coaster, this feels more like reading a newsletter, old reddit.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.
But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn’t make things a thousand times better - that’s for sure.
(That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down… because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)
ClockworkN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well there’s still more niche topics that are hard to sustain a community for on Lemmy due to the lack of population. I’d like to see that grow. Hopefully in time.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Well, in your case, even if Reddit has 8 billions users, you still wouldn’t be able to access it, so why worry?
Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can access, I believe I can create another account. I just feel like lemmy is more like me people
cybermass@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
stuthepower33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Welcome?
Winterfrost@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
Waldschrat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What happened 2023?
BroccoLemuria@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they’re talking about Reddit
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember there were reddit likes too, they just didnt work with fediverse. And were mostly…well almost all were unsavory. Like they were ONLY populated with people reddit didnt want anymore. So not the greatest.
Im glad lemmy/piefed/kbin and all other activityhub/fediverse alternatives are out there.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 1 year ago
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
courval@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lfg!!!
pseudo@jlai.lu 1 year ago
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.
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I finally made the move to setting up an account here and wean my reddit usage.
It’s getting so bad on there, so many bots, trolls, and paid agitators. Plus the uptick in fascist apologists. Smaller communities with higher bars to entry produce better conversation, in my experience.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 year ago
The bots have really ramped up since Trump took office again. Seeing so many top comments with thousands of upvotes just gaslighting the shit out of frightened Americans, telling them they need to touch grass and everything is fine…it’s so chilling.
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I was starting to feel a bit crazy with how many were coming out of the woodwork with almost exactly that same wording, even in my city’s sub.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Welcome!
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
This place is so much better for actually discussing things.
Huschke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 1 year ago
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a not?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Beep Boop, Am Not A Bot… 🤖
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Show us a filled checkbox right this instant!
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I mean, if they drop a hot fucking meme like this every time I wouldn’t even be mad.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
reev@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun times.
Darkhoof@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Welcome back!
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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).
ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Welcome!
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
trashboat@midwest.social 1 year ago
I am not interesting
Sinister_Grape@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noice, I wonder if Hexbear going down helped at all.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!
Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
OneTwoThree@mander.xyz 1 year ago
So, back in 2023 I discovered Lemmy, made an account, but after a bit quit again because I never checked it. I recently made an account again since Reddit has started getting really bad (tons of bots, tons of conservative posts on r/popular after the election, etc) and only recently started actually using said account.
I think using Lemmy requires a different strategy than using Reddit. On Reddit, if you wanted to subscribe to, say, a Linux discussion group, you would just go to r/linux, and there would be just 4 more even more niche subs you could join, like r/linux4noobs. On Lemmy, their are 6 main Linux groups and 14 niche Linux groups across several instances.
The first time I joined Lemmy, I subscribed to just one of these groups like I would on Reddit, but my feed didn’t have enough content so eventually I got bored. The second time around, I created I’ve just subscribed broadly to every community related to my interests, so I if I was interested in Linux I would subscribe to all 20 Linux communities.
I then hypothesized that if I did this for every interest (ex, say my only interests were Linux & Plants, or something), that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests. To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds
That’s all just me though, how do y’all use Lemmy differently from Reddit? I’m curious as to how I can git gud at Lemmy lol
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Similar approach here. Works okay, but personal feeds would be better
pageflight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I certainly run into that. I don’t think I have the energy for multiple accounts, but I wish I could ask for roughly equal numbers of posts from my top 4-5 communities, instead of News + WorldNews dominating everything.
Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Should just introduce a list feature. Share lists of servers and have upvotes on them and subscribe counts and description of the list. So looking into Linux lists, you can see that the top list has most of the communities, a few that are excluded for whatever reason, most people subscribing to that list.
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don’t want to see