The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users.
Man I came here to post this LOL
Lemmy is far less mature than reddit but at least its still improving and growing
The most important is to keep up the momentum. Users don’t mean anything if there’s no content. We all need to keep posting stuff and keep actively disucsing stuff!
That’s what I love about it, though. The fact that it is still maturing means that we as a community have a say on how Lemmy will evolve.
To be honest, the fact that such immature software is capable of being a viable alternative to one of the biggest websites on the internet is already super impressive.
Let’s see where we will head in a couple of years.
Damn right. I’ve been using Reddit for years, and after this shitshow I moved to Lemmy and honestly, it doesn’t feel that much different. I don’t make content, nor do I moderate, so I just scroll and lurk, and comment sometimes, and Lemmy has a steep, extremely short learning curve (you can call it simply a barrier to entry), but after understanding very few basic concepts, this shit feels as natural as Reddit. Besides, I’m testing the Memmy app for iOS and it’s improving exponentially. I seriously feel like Lemmy can become a good alternative, for real, not for the memes.
Reddit is blocked in my country so I have to open reddit using dns, because lemmy is already there, this is an opportunity to find a community forum for a replacement for reddit in my country.
Why the fuck is reddit blocked in your country? Where do you live if I may ask?
I live in indonesia, they have blocked reddit since 2014 so only a few people know that reddit exists. XD
This is my hope for Mastadon, and other instances as there is a need for information to continue to flow from areas of conflict/dictatorship regimes and democracies (actual information, not corporate or national propaganda).
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I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!
I’m really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).
Agreed. So much less noise.
Have to agree, I don’t really mind how many total users or active users there are at this point, there’s enough talk to engage in proper conversations now
Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.
I completely agree! And I don’t think we’ve really started to see people leave reddit yet, that’ll happen when the 3PAs stop working
Oh true! Once reddit floods with sewage from bot posts and mods can’t deal, lemmy is going to flood with users!
I do expect that it will taper off eventually and then drop for a bit before leveling out (not being pessimistic, it’s just a simple fact that much of the current growth of Lemmy, or for that matter kbin or other reddit alternatives, is due to people leaving reddit, and eventually everyone that wants to leave who is willing to consider this place will have come over, so the growth will stop or at least revert to a more “normal” pace, and not everyone will end up liking Lemmy, and so there will be some fraction of people that don’t stay long once the hype over people moving from reddit has died down). However, it should still stabilize somewhere much higher than things were before the migration, so my hope is that it gets enough momentum that the number of people that remain when this incident is over is enough to sustain a functional community.
Realistic assessment but the way reddit’s ceo is going ,I think we will see more exodus 1st july and again shortly after that, I do think reddits bad news train has only just left the station.
agreed, I have found that interacting with content here has been more meaningful and the interactions to be more welcoming. Happy weekend to you!
Happy weekend back to you mate
I have 2 weeks off whoop!
Congrats!
The website now says that Lemmy is over 200,000 people, wow! This growth is amazing, I just hope the people joining are a bit more concrete though, and don’t treat this place as a fad.
I have sync on my phone for now, going to be hard to delete. But, Jerboa has been great and the community here is nice. I definitely plan on staying for a long time after 13 years on reddit.
Yes same here. I lurked on Reddit long before the digg migration. And actively participated for at least 10 years. I still have the apps installed on my phone. But I literally have not opened them in days. I still have new tab or two in a browser open to specific subs. That I check infrequently. But as soon as I’m aware of counterparts on the Fediverse I am more than happy with Lemmy. My couple hours a day of scrolling on Reddit are now devoted solely to Lemmy and finding new communities as well as starting one of my own. Something which I never did on Reddit.
11 years with an account. Remember digg before that, and stumbleupon before that… I find this has been a nice change.
And the whole time slashdot has always been there for us. Actually I am kind of amazed that they are still around. But that is definitely old old old guard.
Now the number is over 1 million.
Neat, anyone else having problems upvoting anything? I try but it just goes right back down.
From my experience it’s just not showing on your end but after a while it updates the votes
yeah, just a little buggy sometimes
Sometimes the site goes a little buggy. Sometimes i get 503 but i just wait, refresh, or i heard someone say too they have lemmy and kbin account and use the other when one is down xD I think it’s still adjusting to having so many users
Same
Lemmy has a lot of obstacles that will prevent it from truly going mainstream:
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The community browser is complete dog shit for discovering content on different instances, and trying to view another instance’s content from your own community is just needlessly complex. Discoverability is still a lot better than Mastodon though, where you’d look at all post and see nothing but hentai reposting bots regurgitating stuff that isn’t even allowed on NSFWLemmy…
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Due to the nature of federation, you also run the risk of committing to an instance only for them to defederate entirely, or disassociate from content you want to see but they don’t agree with. Beehaw is a very good example of this.
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As there’s no option (yet) to migrate to a different instance, and Lemmy is a FOSS project that cannot be monetized in the same way as a traditional social media site, what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?
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I cannot speak for the iOS option available, but Jerboa is barebones. For example, you can’t even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment’s permalink and view the context. This is incredibly basic functionality for any social news aggregator. Even with the fediverse in general surpassing 150,000 users, I don’t see Lemmy getting the same level of third-party app support as Reddit had.
you can’t even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment’s permalink and view the context.
You can, but only in the latest version. It takes multiple taps, though.
How?
undefined> what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?
Well idk about you guys but self hosting is always an option. Not easy, but an option
These are all valid complaints, but I feel like you need to put this into perspective. This platform has blown up in the last week, change is going to come but it’s going to take some time. I’m sure it will go faster now that it is really taking off though.
I am quite confident that the platform will go up in quality quick. Here is why I am confident:
On 4, what’s up with this? Being fixed?
4 is already fixed in the alpha of jerboa, and the functionality is there but got accidentally hidden in the current version. You have to hold-click in your inbox to see context. These kind of hiccups are normal in a very new foss browser.
Server costs are not as high as Reddit made us believe. You can probably run a 10 user instance for less than 10€/month.
If the instance is good donations could keep it up forever, not even expensive donations. Certainly a fraction of what reddit is asking for reddit premium.
It’s one of those times where I wish I learned programming/computer science and not History and accountancy.
I studied something completely unrelated with computer science. I started with programming and then with general computer science and now I know a lot of things and I’m quite probably going to land a job in IT field next year. It’s never late to learn something new.
Coding is hard though, especially when you go past the basic tutorial stuff (Hello World, if statements, for/while loops, libraries, etc.) Actual computer science and understanding all the technical and mathematical aspects of computing is orders of magnitude harder than writing some C# or Javascript code.
Last time I actually tried to make an effort to learn how to code was back in the days when /r/CarlHProgramming was still active, long before Carl Herold was arrested on heinous child sex crimes.
If the fediverse gets very big, won’t your instance need a lot of bandwidth and storage to sync all the content?
It’s requirements will grow, but it’s still mostly text and some images. Mastodon is kind of big (not twitter big but bigger and more active than lemmy) and there are people still self hosting their instance and there’s lots of donation supported instances.
I think fediverse being instance-oriented should scalate well. As no instance really needs to hold the whole thing by its own.
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I honestly wish I knew about this sooner. I like the idea of something being CEO-free
Wooohoooooo!!! No one in this thread has an account older than 2 weeks.
I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit (although i dont think that will happen), but the userbase is already big and diverse enough to sustain some good communities that have an (imo) better feeling to them than reddit.
I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit
I wouldn’t. People need to get away from the notion that more users = better. With more users comes trolls, bad faith actors, etc. Quality over quantity.
It depends on the goal of the platform. For spending your free time on and socializing i fully agree that smaller communities are the best. However as a forum for getting information (especially on niche subjects) more users = better more or less.
You think it’s big now, just wait until July. Reddit’s api changes are going to force people off of the site in droves. Right now it’s a lot of noise and some movement, but a lot of the regular user base hasn’t actually felt any effects yet. Once the changes make the site unusable for a lot of people there will be a lot more.
As someone who just deleted Apollo and tried to use the Reddit iOS app - this is exactly correct - site is unusable on the official app. People will flee.
Reddit app has 10-15x the downloads as apollo mate
And? You’re implying a non sequitur.
95% of the people using reddit on mobile are already on official reddit app. Apollo going down isn’t going to cause a massive flee, just a portion of the small userbase that is Apollo users.
You are assuming those people are still using the app.
When I first tried to use reddit on a phone, I downloaded the official app too. I just never used it after discovering it’s useless.
Reddit has their numbers, obviously, but we don’t.
Yes!!
I just joined, but I’m excited to watch Lemmy grow!
Same. Lemmy can only get better. Reddit, I’m not sure.
I’m sure there’s no way to tell, but I wonder how many are duplicate accounts to span different instances.
I think the best way to judge success is to look at the overall engagement and that one is very high.
Yeah, if I’m anything to go by, you’d need to divide these figures by at least three to get to the number of new people. Still, it’s not a bad start.
You could probably find some ways to get a few of em but i don’t know.
You shouldn’t really need more than one or two accounts tho. Talking from kbin :)What would be the use case for having two accounts?
Using different accounts to route around and still access content at instances that defederated from your original account’s instance.
You can still view content from instances that defederated from your instance as long as your instance didn’t block them.
You can still follow defederated content as long as you follow the users/instance?
In my experience, yes. I can see BeeHaw’s content event though they defederated from my home instance a couple of days ago. I’ve also commented on some of their posts, which is weird…
Your comments won’t show for beehaw or other instances, only people on your instance can see those comments.
For perspective:
r/GothStyle has 159k subscribers, r/tarot has 306k, r/cycling has 348k, r/rpg and r/political humor have 1.5m each, r/ExplainLikeImFive has 22.3m, and r/AskReddit has 41.4m.
Make of that what you will. I’m just giving numbers.
The difference is in the active number of content creators and participants. It’s nice to have a sub with ten million followers but if Gallowboob is the only one posting and his 250 bots are the only ones voting it’s just a popular Twitter account. That is good for ad revenue but shit for interaction.
Give me a vibrant, intelligent, argumentative (in a good way) 100,000 over a passive ten million any day.
Massive numbers of users is great for a business, but not necessarily great for discussion.
Lemmy doesn’t feel like Reddit, but in a good way. Individual comments actually stand out, and it’s not a sea of lowest common denominator trash and reposts.
I think people should stop conflating big numbers with success. If anything, we’ve seen the kind of nonsense big numbers lead to, with an IPO on the horizon and all that comes with that.
Like I said, it’s just some raw data. Process it however you see fit.
I’d say she did prosess it however she saw fit.
This is interesting.
Obviously, I don’t have stats on things like the % active accounts vs inactive and such, so this is pure speculation.
If you look at the hot sorted posts on r/GothStyle they seem to get around 100 or so points per post. Note, this isn’t a direct translation into upvotes. It also says there is 145 people online - Does that mean roughly 2/3 of active users vote stuff to hot? ~100 people holding up a niche community with a fraction of those the posters themselves.
So in effect ~0.1% of a subreddit’s subscribers makes things happen. I always baselessly suspected that Reddit fluffs up the numbers to make engagement seem like it is much greater than it is, but this is 1000x smaller than the sub count suggests.
I’m sceptical of my maths here but r/PCMasterRace is similar. Out of nearly 8mil subscribers, roughly 8000 online.
It also says there is 145 people online - Does that mean roughly 2/3 of active users vote stuff to hot? ~100 people holding up a niche community with a fraction of those the posters themselves.
For this, it’s important to remember that’s the number of people online at that very moment, but the vote count is persistent. Any number of those upvotes could have come from users who aren’t online presently, but had been online an hour or two prior. ~66%, in this case, is not the actual amount, it’s just the upper bound.
I always baselessly suspected that Reddit fluffs up the numbers to make engagement seem like it is much greater than it is, but this is 1000x smaller than the sub count suggests.
It’s possible, and very plausible, that they do this, but it’s much less plausible (though still possible) that they do it to that degree.
Doesn’t really mean anything. Facebook has around 3.4 billion active monthly users. Reddit has around 400 million. I’d still take the latter than the former. Lemmy will keep growing. Probably will never have 100s of millions of users and that’s fine. More users can be a good thing but by itself the numbers mean nothing.
Again: just giving numbers. Make of them what you will.
