i comment more than monthly on lemmy
Average Lemmy Active Users by Month
Submitted 11 months ago by Guster@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
fadhl3y@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is my first comment in months. I’ve been lurking and reading.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bearsquad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I used Reddit for years and maybe posted twice, here i just feel more compelled to participate. I find it hard to put into words, but Reddit feels like social media, which I hate, and lemmy feels more like an old school forum.
Why would more users be better? As far as I’m concerned whatever number of users are right now is the right one.
khannie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I definitely get the old school forum vibes. Reddit felt like talking into the void sometimes if a thread was popular and you weren’t there from early.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Same. I participate much more here than I did on the red site.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It helps that our community is small enough that people are able to comment with people that they have something in common with. Compare that to Reddit when it felt like there was no meaningful conversation because there was too much of an ocean of users.
i_like_birds@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s ok, it’s just us cool kids left
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s right, for once us COOL kids run things, not those mean jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends…
telllos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right…
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 11 months ago
My mum says their cool.
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I feel dumb for having to ask but what exactly is “active users half year” vs “active uses monthly”?
Is half year just mean one or more comments/upvotes in the last 6months?
lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I believe the chart is if you are looking at last activity date.
Was this persons’ last activity date in the last 6 months? Last 1 month?
Not sure how they are actually measuring that activity - whether that’s logins or posts?
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 11 months ago
It’s based on posts and comments.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Don’t let yourself be fooled. Lemmy is doing great. It’s got a lot more user than half a year ago and it will continue to grow. You should look at the bigger perspective here. People are starting to understand the point of the Fediverse more and more and it will eventually take over enshitified platforms such as Reddit
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m quite happy with the small town pub atmosphere myself. Good prices, good banter, the occassional bar fight… Just my style.
pinkyprincessfiona@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like your style…
nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah the threadiverse has really improved for me in the last few months. It seems a lot more active with solid discussion happening.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t worry fam. Spez has several moves left in the Elonshitification playbook.
He hasn’t even begun to malign ethnic or religious groups, accept no blame, and blame said groups’ advocacy organizations for the problem!
Subverb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s see what the earth thinks.
atomicfox@lemm.ee 11 months ago
buggy, infrequent updates, lack of content, an ideological hive mind…is anyone really surprised?
Cranakis@lemmy.one 11 months ago
It weeds out the dumb and the lazy 😉 . I like it.
joenforcer@midwest.social 11 months ago
You mean fuck cars, fuck capitalism, look how cool Lemmy is?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 months ago
You just described some of the best years of Reddit
snazzles@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Imma here, just a lurker
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wahhhhhhhhka
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sorry, dumb question but what the heck does Active users Halfyear mean? They’ve been on for a half year and are still active?
fiat_lux@kbin.social 11 months ago
A lot of accounts are interacting (voting, posting, etc.) on lemmy-visible activitypub services within a 6 month timespan, but most accounts are not active users interacting every month.
It's actually a very positive graph. Many of the new accounts would be spammers, bots, throwaway accounts, alts of banned users, users making account on multiple instances because of downtime, etc. So it's normal to see growth over longer spans of time that aren't completely reflected in monthly active user statistics.
The current plateau is probably for the best, it gives developers time to catch up somewhat with the last growth spurt. There will be other social media platform clusterfucks in the future that will kick off future growth spurts.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a good point. The devs, mods and everyone needs time to brace for the next wave of reddit exiles! As one of the API refugees, I remember how rough those first couple of weeks were…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
My guess: monthly user add all the unique users in the last month. Half year add the unuque users in the past 6 months. This is why is bigger, but it grows slowly in the months with less unique users.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Seems like a reasonable guess!
sj_zero 11 months ago
I'm guessing unique users who have been active on Lemmy within the past 6 months.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Makes sense to me!
pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Don’t pressure yourself to become an active monthly user. Just take it easy. I came here to have a peace with me not constantly shitposting to gain karma.
oak00@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Frustrating because of all the decentralized platforms lemmy feels the closest to the original. I’m still on Reddit because there’s more there but the app fucking sucks so much.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I go there to passively consume short videos of stuff that isn’t here, but fuck if I’m gonna comment or vote. I don’t even sign in.
GreenEnigma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And they just keep intentionally making using anything but they apps terrible experience.
DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 months ago
If you haven't tried it, check out kbin, it has a slightly different UI which I prefer
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I truly don’t mean this as a derogative comment, but as someone who just uses the website, and not an app, do you feel like you’re absolutely need to use an app to use Lemmy?
machinin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think they meant the Reddit app.
Sl00k@programming.dev 11 months ago
The app experience is much better than the browser experience imo
sqibkw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been using the rif app with ReVanced patches and my own API key, much better than the 1st party app. Eventually it’ll probably break, but it works for now!
irreticent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
RedReader works by default, no patches needed.
Lemmingtons_Spa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am now an active user, lurking over
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Went to the website link looking for context and couldn’t find it so I’ll ask here. What is the significance of the blue Halfyear line?
zeograd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably user active during the past 6 months (posting, commenting, …) vs user active during the past month
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 11 months ago
It’s just a borderline misleading and useless user engagement metric.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like that I can somewhat recognize usernames across all the lemmy post I comment in. Im not sure if anyone really notices me or recognizes my username and goes ‘Oh hey its smokeydope again’ but I do that for some other active lemmy users and it starts to feel like we are all acquaintances working together to make an interesting experience for eachother and not just competing for attention without adknowledging eachother.
Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I gotta be honest…I am hanging on by a threat. The niche communities that I was engaged with on Reddit before the Snoopacolypse were pretty niche. I wasn’t there for r/funny or r/videos, etc. I found similar communities on Lemmy, but they have soooooo little activity. I have to modify my sort just to see content, as its so old. When there are posts, they typically get very little discussion.
I am on Lem.ee, and I have the hardest time posting anything from mobile. It looks like it fails, and if I sort by new, it isn’t there and never shows up - HOWEVER, I start getting replies, so someone is seeing it somehow.
I detest what reddit did and is still doing - but Lemmy is not filling that void for me, and its frustrating.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This place, it’s … beautiful. I’ve joined the communities with the topics i’m interested in and the posts I see are only (mostly) what I asked for.
The average person is reasonably educated, capable of arguing a point in good faith. It’s not you against the world or the world against you here, it’s more like, did you consider it from this point of view. That’s nice!
The trolls and corporations have gotten board and are going home. The people with 2 backup accounts have stopped using them because their primary choice stays up, online and stable.
We could use a little extra mod tools and discovery, but this is a nice laid back place to relax and catch up on some random subject matter or ask for a little help in between life and sleep.
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
meh. who am i, a fuckin executive? i don’t care about graphs
frankly, it feels like lemmy has both grown and gotten worse - it attracted enough attention that there are now morons, bootlickers, corporate simps, and dickheads posting now, and upvoting each other’s posts
Wijnie@feddit.nl 11 months ago
But what we forget is that not long ago Lemmy was very empty at least in my experience. So I left for some period, but when I came back July this year it was just completely changed. And it stayed this way, I don’t need reddit anymore personally
Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m contributing because I’m a bit of a meme repository and I get a more positive reception here than I do on Reddit.
kool_newt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This tells me there’s like 35K super cool people in the world, everyone else is mid at best.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Hey, that’s me
Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still on Lemmy exclusively, but it’s not my first time using a reddit alternative. This is normal. A large influx of users when reddit fucks up, but some slowly migrate back. Until reddit fucks up again. The problem is none of the alternatives survive long term.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh no! Anyway…
Cap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If I could post images, there would be more content… I don’t understand why I can’t.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 months ago
I mean, isn’t this exactly what we would expect? Big influx of people when reddit does something unpopular and people want alternatives, then a decrease as the anger fades and people either decide they don’t like Lemmy for some reason, or just settle down into their normal, less active amount of posting, stabilizing at a number of users lower than the peak but higher than before the influx. Assuming that Lemmy still is around the next time Reddit gets people mad, it’ll happen again, just like how Mastodon gets an influx of new users whenever Twitter does something to upset it’s userbase.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How many people made 2-3 accounts to compensate for outages? Less outages means less alts being active .
Of course that won’t accout for the whole amount of people leaving, but I bet if we could get that metric it wouldn’t seem near as bad
TheWoozy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On my phone both lines are the same color.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have to admit that I still go back to Reddit regularly. There‘s just (still) more interesting / engaging content and more interaction there. Although I would be happy to go „all in fediverse“.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Juuuust keeping the lights on.
I think we’ll need a more polished, tuned, crisper product in order to actually retain a significant userbase of less techy sorts. Which is probably still some time away.
For better or for worse, though, I don’t think the social media landscape is going to change too much in the foreseeable future.
But really, this isn’t good enough. It’s lacking the layer of polish that the mainstream public expects, it’s basically still in alpha. Development takes time is all.
librechad@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think its because we aren’t allowed by default to post images, which I completely understand after what happened back a couple months ago. I’ve been using Lemmy for more then 4 months actively but yet I still don’t have permission to post pictures because of the fact that I’m too lazy to even try to get it enabled. I do believe also that this tends to be mostly a leftist leaning app, so maybe some people get drawn away.
oxf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.
But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.
It’s starting to be clear that the whole “ML - Leninism Marxism” was actually a big part of Lemmy.
I’m a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don’t feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist…
sleepy555@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Extreme leftist politics, memes, a weirdly active Star Trek community (comparatively) and blocking furry/anime porn communities daily. That’s been my experience so far.
librechad@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I feel the same way sometimes. I’m a centrist as well, a lot of the people on this platform do have extreme takes and have the “You must agree with me or I will ban you” attitude. I wish it was a bit more diverse but all I see whenever I come on Lemmy is a bunch of leftists posts. I have nothing against leftists, its just the fact that content is so obviously saturated with it.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I left Lemmy for like 6 months because I got tired of the echo chamber. I’m usually inclined to the left but this was just too much and too extreme. There were some pretty interesting topics that I learned here, like how badly designed society is and why cars are needed. Those “intellectual” discussions (if you could call them that) kept me engaged, but even those spaces were ruined by people totally closed to the idea of a middle-ground.
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m not actually seeing tankies around, any more – lemmygrad banned me within days so that their minds wouldn’t be polluted by my arguments, and whatever happened to hexbear I don’t know they seem to have largely defederated again.
Gabu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I am honestly put off by people who really go by Marxist-Leninist schtick. This whole thing reminds of the old anecdote about a dialogue between a jew and God about the Holocaust: “I guess you had to be there”. Seeing privileged white kids run around the internet calling for good old Lenin/Stalin times are no better than bonehead Nazis fighting their own fears materialized as Yet Another [racist slur of your choice].
It’s entertaining for like five minutes, but the joke gets tiresome very quickly.
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 11 months ago
being left leaning is not the issue, but when opinions even slightly to the right of extreme left are censored and removed, it doesn’t encourage participation or conversation
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Where is that happenening outside of lemmygrad? I have literally never once seen that happening outside of that place…
Though it happens literally 24/7 on alt-right social media or reddit /r/conservative 😂 you can speedrun any% ban time by saying “I think covid was handled poorly” lol
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Plenty of liberal techbros around on lemmy. Also are you aware of the Nazi Bar phenomenon.
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No images is I think a lemm.ee-only thing, other instances are still allowing it. It was severely size-limited even before the whole CSAM situation to save on storage, and, IIRC, paraphrasing sunaurus: “Imgur exists.”
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk reddit even has become wayy more leftist. Its just the inevitable trend
Ategon@programming.dev 11 months ago
Im not sure how lemm.ee handles it but a lot of instances that aren’t lemm.ee dont have uploads disabled
For example this post has an image uploaded to .world
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Can you explain to me what happened a couple months ago why people can’t post pictures? And what should one do to enable it?
kaesaecracker@leminal.space 11 months ago
CSAM Spam. That’s what happened. Most people thankfully only noticed the moderator posts, but those understandably don’t want to have to filter that all day long.