5d ago

Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.

My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.

Now I'm taking a break. I won't post anything or I'll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😢?)

But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.

However... I'm just curious.

Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?

Edit: I will still post stuff. I'll just post a lot less!

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Previous thread on the same topic 4 days ago: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/238765
Also, OP, as a general request, could you please consider posting to
!movies@piefed.social rather than !movies@lemmy.world
!privacy@programming.dev rather than whatever other privacy community you are using
Those two communities have several active members posting, and are trying to gather enough activity to become sustainable. !movies@lemmy.world was barely active before you started posting it to it, and now provides people with https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload when they want to post about movies.
Feel also free to join !fedigrow@lemmy.zip where we discuss growing communities
- I get the ick from piefed. it feels like "bluesky".
  I would not "fit in" on any piefed instance, so I have blocked any piefed instances.
  when lemmy dies because everyone is on piefed I'll just go back to what I was doing before Reddit.
  
  Lol its just Lemmy with more features. And less funding if we are being honest. Rimu is an awesome Dev.
  
  less funding plus more features isn't selling it. just means it's not maintainable long term.
  besides my ick is more from the user base not the software. any if the piefed users I've ran across are trying to hard sell piefed. I don't like car salesmen, so it just gives me the ick.
  
  less funding plus more features isn't selling it. just means it's not maintainable long term.
  All the other instances survive across the Fediverse on less funding.
  besides my ick is more from the user base not the software. any if the piefed users I've ran across are trying to hard sell piefed. I don't like car salesmen, so it just gives me the ick.
  It's quite advanced in comparison to Lemmy in many ways, regardless of what you think of how people try to sell it.
  
  OK. Welp gl!
  
  The fuck are you on about, Piefed is just a different software. We're the same user base.
  
  like ml is the same user base?
  edit: or maybe hexbear?
  
  Piefeds users don't tend to be tankies or campists, and Piefed.social itself is defederated from Hexbear and Lemmygrad.
  
  you missed my whole point.
  lemmy instances cultivate their own user base. piefed is no different. so not as they said, "the same user base".
  
  Well currently Piefed is growing prominently from Lemmy users. Most of the audience are 'ex-Lemmy' users.
  
  where else would they come from?
  is piefed advertising on Reddit? maybe Facebook?
  sarcasm btw, just thought I'd blatantly point it out because it seems you might need the help.
  I couldn't care less where users are coming from. Piefed users give me the ick because they try so damn hard to get users to join piefed. they are also some of the most blindly optimistic users I have ever interacted with. they remind me of "happy Christians". you know the type; happy wife, 2.5 kids, live in a HOA white neighborhood, live-laugh-pray. it feels like a young cult right now and gives me a feeling that something just isn't right.
  I'll stick with lemmy, thanks. I'll take a flawed platform over one that insists it's better.
  
  I said "Piefed is growing prominently from Lemmy users" because you said:
  "lemmy instances cultivate their own user base. piefed is no different. so not as they said, "the same user base"."
  It is pretty much the same userbase as Lemmy at the moment.
  
  WHAT!? I am genuinely curious why you think this?
  For one thing PieFed was only centralized for a bit there at its start, whereas now there are already numerous piefed instances. It is true that piefed.social is still the #1 instance (much as lemmy.world had 80% of the Lemmy userbase at some point - but you still remain there even now so that does not seem to bother you?), but now piefed.blahaj.zone (not even 3 months old yet!!!!!), and piefed.world each have >100 active users, and piefed.ca, feddit.online, piefed.zip, quokk.au, piefed.au, etc. each have multiple tens of users.
  More to the point, PieFed is FOSS. You could download the code and have your own personal instance spun up by the end of the day tomorrow.
  I am guessing that you mean that the opinions of a single dev (Rimu) have an exagerated effect on the development of the code - which was definitely true in the past, but he also listens to feedback, apologies when he is wrong, and is amenable to going in other directions when the community wants that. The private voting debacle is one such example: I argued against it from the start, but he did it anyway, then abolished it and apologized to people when it received heavy criticism. You can read a really frank discussion about the topic where dbzer0 was considering whether to make a PieFed instance. Look especially at the comment starting with "I don’t trust Piefed at all - they’re far too eager to curate my experience, and they’ve reintroduced all of the reputation anti-features (plus more) that were part of what drove me away from Reddit and the absence of which is part of what I like about Lemmy and Mbin."
  TLDR: it was a new project back then, and things were different. Also you might be unaware of the history of the development of Lemmy too, and of lemmy.world. These things are common, and nowhere close to be unique to PieFed. BlueSky on the other hand is corporate and so WILL be enshittified, eventually. PieFed on the other hand is just a better Lemmy :-).
  
  that's a hard sell. gonna take a pass. thanks though.
  
  It's fine for you not to like it, it's just software and there's room to use different ones on the shared Threadiverse:-).
  I do maintain that bringing up PieFed seemed very relevant to this discussion though. The OP had:
  Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?
  And then from there we went into MAUs, although the link offered only showed Lemmy stats so I shared a different link with PieFed stats, especially relevant due to the incident with lemm.ee and how many of its users moved over to PieFed.
  But if you've tried it and don't care for it, that's fine, we just wanted to offer the knowledge that it exists and that a lot of people really do seem to enjoy it.

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