Average Lemmy Active Users by Month

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• sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know about you but I was just waiting for an excuse. I ain’t ever going back. It’s a brave new world for me, part of shifting my whole suite to FOSS. Leaving the old internet behind me.

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  • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In 2022 I was Windows + Twitter + Reddit. In 2023 I’m full-time Linux + Mastodon + Lemmy.

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    • Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve rid myself of reddit (never used Twitter thank God) but I’m still on windows. I just got a steam deck though and I’m loving the Linux desktop mode. What branch of Linux does the deck use? I know I could do a quick Google to find out but damn I love how well it runs. Linux isn’t nearly as scary as I thought

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    • Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice change you made!!

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    • canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linux is a hell of a drug

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    • drctrl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I ditched Windows because I could not stand them restarting my PC without my permission after an update. And ads! Fucking ads on my start menu.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      welcome home

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    • WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, I didn’t know which server suited me so I created three accounts on various Lemmy servers and also one on kbin, but now I’m exclusively using just this account.

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  • 9715698@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wasn’t really looking for a replacement, just wanted to break my reddit addiction which was hampering my productivity. Lemmy isn’t a replacement in the sense, but a nice change and something new to try.

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  • Phanlix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FOSS

    Same. I adopted a google account a long time ago, but I’ve finally hit my limit on what they’ve been doing with youtube and everything. Free and open source alternatives are the way to go, it may take a while to catch on or may never fully, but who cares. Switching to linux recently was the best thing I’ve ever done.

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  • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same here

    Well said

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• MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What this shows us is that more people are joining lemmy, but even more people are either leaving or going into lurker mode, as Lemmy only counts people who have commented or posted in that time period as active users, whereas most social media counts any activity while logged in as active. You have to realize that people who use reddit as Google search results don’t usually interact with the content there and most won’t even make an account.

  On the upside, with fewer people, it’s easy to get noticed here just by contributing good content since you don’t really get drowned out here because of the democratic upvote based sorting instead of black box personalized recommendation algorithms. So with relatively low amount of effort, you can make sure your content is being seen instead of relying on analytics and metrics.

  The last thing to in mind that Lemmy is only one aspect of ActivityPub, and Mastodon’s growth is currently the highest right now because of the ecosystem created by the whale fall of Twitter, which indirectly grows Lemmy as Mastodon users can post directly to federated Lemmy communities.

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  • LostCat005@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just got recommended this sub after posting on reddit re: predatory algos and the necessary regulations needed to protect people and how algos have manipulated the UX so much its disrupted the originally intended purposes; ie insta has effectively become a marketing and advertising platform.

    So in response someone suggested finding alternatives to the popular social media sites and used Lemmy as an example.

    I have been loving it thus far - its old school reddit.

    this is my first comment on lemmy!

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    • Enfors@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Welcome! So far, in my experience, this is a much friendlier community that… many of the alternatives.

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    • Tetractys@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck you! Hello.

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    • AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed on it being old school reddit! There are some UI wrappers that make it look and feel like old school reddit that I use and love you might enjoy. The wrapper is called mlmym and is open source. There are a few hosts you can use, I use this one: o.opnxng.com

      github.com/rystaf/mlmym/tree/main

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  • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do votes count as activity as well? Or just posts and comments?

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    • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It really should.

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    • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Votes unfortunately don’t count

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  • omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There seemed to be an influx of reddit users but probably didn’t like Lemmy’s own distinct user base (*nix users for example)

    I am kind of glad it settled down because I much prefer Lemmy over reddit

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    • Dizzirron@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thanks margot robbie

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    • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s Acady Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

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  • bobby295@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, I’d better keep commenting, I usually just lurk/vote

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone posted metrics for how many users vote. 131k.

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  • perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    halfyear includes people trying out different instances; monthly shows just the one(s) they settled on

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• TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For anyone panicking, this is exactly like what happened with the transition from ICQ to AOL messenger, from MySpace to Facebook, from 9gag/etc to Reddit, and so on.

  Website makes a mistake, some people leave. Makes another, more leave. Each time this happens, more ‘main’ people of said website leave. Hell, I already saw PoppinKREAM here, so that’s a great start.

  So this is exactly how it always goes. The fact it is still here means it’s staying. Look at Threads, or Metaverse, whatever those things are. All dying or dead, barely lasted. Lemmy is still here, people are still posting, so just keep doing what you’re doing. It’s already working.

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s like a ratcheting effect. Every time schmeddit fucks up, we gain a few more. And if you can count on Spez for one thing, it’s that he’ll reliably fuck up on the regular.

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  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why Mastodon is so populated compared to the lemmy. Elon just keeps making more and more mistakes.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Think it really was PoppinKREAM?! Love to read them again.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Them and Portarossa

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it wasn’t, it was a damn good imitator.

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  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aw man. ICQ. I miss those times.

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    • AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So much happiness in this little sound.

      www.google.com/search?q=icq+sound&oq=icq+soun…

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still have my UIN 8833052 :)

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, you miss it now.

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t care that the fediverse has a ton of traffic. It may not have the most users, but it definitely has the best

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  • ki77erb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *tips hat

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    • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lem’my

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  • Guster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very true. I’m still amazed how good lemmy is considering how small we still are.

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100% agree. Have encountered a few jerkwads on Lemmy but hey, blocking works. The overall vibe here is 100x better than schmeddit.

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quick question regards blocking - how does it work exactly?

      When I block someone, I can still see their message. Just won’t get a notification. I thought, it would be blocked entirely - so I’m a bit confused.

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I much much prefer the niche community here. Much less shit to have to wade through (see: came here to say this x 100000 per post) to get to the good comments and posts

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      tries to resist urge, fails

      Came here to say this!

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @Pregnenolone yeah I haven't seen a single "this is the way" comment chain since I got here.

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    • ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the #boost #feature also helps with this.

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    • winter@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This.

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  • seathru@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. I don’t need the most users. The internet was better back when it wasn’t everybody.

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People complaining about a loss of users are the same people that will complain about performance issues next time there is a huge influx of users that stresses the infrastructure for popular instances.

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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m way less mad about Kbin having issues than I ever was at Reddit

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  11 million comments this month. 11 million comments from people smart enough to leave behind the other. 11 million comments, likely largely from actual humans.

  Lemmy is thriving.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plot twist: It’s all piped.video bot.

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol ive never clicked a piped link even once

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  • justaveg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t completely leave behind reddit. I still view, but I only comment/post on lemmy.

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m similar, but I occasionally crosspost Lemmy posts to Reddit to try and drive more traffic here :)

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• RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the people returning and forgetting what reddit did and will continue to do. Then the next time reddit messes up, they will come back. 😔

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The blue one doesn’t reset count every mount so it’s cululative. It means people come and go. There was a big Reddit rush and some people went back others got annoyed with the growing pains and went elsewhere. But the fact that it’s slowing down means it’s stabilizing to a dedicated community.

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  • average650@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would prefer to use Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have some things that reddit currently has. It could in the future, but it doesn’t have the user base yet.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The half year probably still includes all the Reddit refugees, maybe that’s why it hadn’t fallen yet

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• AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lurker here. Just writing this as my first ever comment to push those numbers.

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  • Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bump

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    • FrostyCaribou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right.

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  • Tetractys@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck you. Welcome.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Got to admit, this made me chuckle.

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  • TheOgreChef@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Got pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers

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    • Tetractys@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ghmmm hmmm hmmm. bump.

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so there was a wave of sign ups with the Reddit drama, and then it tapered off. the graph looks about right to me

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• directive0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dont get the hysteria, personally.

  I came here to escape the crowds, not migrate with them.

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• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This graph is much more reassuring:

  lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

  We are stable, even slightly growing in the last few days.

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• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s the thing though… I’ve been on Reddit for over a decade before Lemmy, and whilst there may be less interaction the interactions themselves have been far more sincere. People are more willing to engage, and even with this random comment there’s a chance someone would comment below.

  The community feel of Lemmy is something, at least I’ve found, Reddit had lost a very long time ago.

  Sort of a quality Vs quantity thing I guess?

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• rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If reddit taught me anything, it’s that a growing network isn’t necessarily a good thing.

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• Ategon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For anybody interested, the monthly active users including voters is 131,150

  The one in the graph only takes into account people who have made a post or comment

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter. I get all my news here and I can comment if I want. That’s enough

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• deadinside91@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FWIW Lemmy has fully replaced Reddit as my go-to toilet reading material, and I’m sure there are many other lurkers around here who don’t post much and thus don’t show up in these stats. The more niche communities are still lacking in content, yes, but these things are best left to grow organically over a long period of time to maintain quality. It was the same on Reddit too before the enshittification escalated.

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• Ategon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Zoomed out graph

  Image

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• asterfield@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meh, lemmy is already interesting enough to kill time and past that I don’t care

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For whatever anecdotal observations are worth, I’ve recently been seeing a huge uptick in activity from the userbase that is here. Maybe it’s been driven by posts like this one or memes about growing Lemmy, but people seem to be posting and commenting more than usual.

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• sqibkw@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First of all, rooting for decentralized net 100%. Watching Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc. all get screwed over from the top down sucks. I really appreciate the strong community here - having it smaller and more engaging encourages participation and makes it feel a little more human.

  However, I’m considering leaving Lemmy just because somehow it’s even more cynical than reddit, and I’m losing interest in opening the app if it’s just 99% downers. I mean almost every article is just crushingly bad news. The world is in a rough state for sure, and staying informed is really important! But trying to live on and find the good is near impossible here.

  (Yes, I’m subbed to upliftingnews. That’s the 1%.)

  Is this a demographics thing, or am I just subbed in all the wrong places? Maybe a bit of both?

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BAD GRAPH, Y-AXIS STARTS AT 20K

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• Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now that I’ve goten addicted to the block feature, I’m probably never going back to reddit. Dont like the content from specific servers while I’m browsing the top pages? Block, they stop existsing. Find myself getting baited into low effort arguements? Block and move on. I feel faaaarrr less stressed out lately

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• throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep it in mind

  We lost active users because of this

  • beehaw has been defed from lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and other instances
  • some instances like lemmy.film and fmhy went offline

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• willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately it’s mostly bot posts and people of all the same thought processes with nothing to add to any conversation.

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• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it would be wise for us to adopt a hashtag system so you can search by topic as opposed to by community. We’re so segmented into smaller sub communities and different servers that it’s difficult to find what you want to read.

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• Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IDGAF IM HERE TO STAY. LEMMY IS COOL AND WTF EVEN IS A SNOO 😤😤😤

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• RespectMyAuthoriteh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know this is anecdotal, but I have literally not seen a single mention of Lemmy anywhere online or in the new in the last 3 months, including on Reddit. “Build it and they will come” only gets you so far…

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• Aarrodri@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t care I’m here to stay. Only community I miss is formuladank for F1 shitposting. Been trying to get it going here but no traction yet. Everything else, Lemmy 4 life.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Weird, because I feel like it is more populated that it was after the huge influx of users because of the APIcalypse.

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• grte@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn’t necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That’s all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today’s front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.

  Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.

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