Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus

I've done the same. Even installed linux on my gaming rig. Also moved everything to proton.

Agreed. I may be principled to a fault, but I'll never go back to Reddit. It has that corporate miasma to it now.

Truth be told, it had the miasma long before the API changes, but that was the point where the boiled frog croaked for me.

Lemmy is quite the pipeline

I've installed Libreddit to redirect any Google searches that lead me to Reddit. They're not getting my visit!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libreddit/

Keep up the momentum! Install Signal, migrate to the Proton suite.

Hello fellow stubborner!

Just gave my windows PC to upgrade my kids gaming setup, Linux on a ThinkPad T490 for me now.

It's such a fresh feeling, no more crap everywhere.

I assumed active users was going down partly because some of us created multiple accounts on different instances in the beginning to get a feel for it all, then ended up just using one

i hardly use lemmy compared to rif but i was under the belief reddit content is just better but the app sucks. i was wrong turns out it all sucks. rif just gave the shit a tuxedo.

nowadays i look at reddit and the content is asisine its all the same shitty headlines and weird ask questions "how much sex does the average woodchuck have during football season?"

it feels like Facebook. lifeless and like everyone is pretending

Rip rif

Your comment warms my heart and gives me hope. Thank you

Same I find the engagement is raising. The threads here are more sincere. Sure it's not as active when it comes to some things but that's fine IMHO. Building an online community right takes time.

I'm so happy there's no more posts about people trying to fix federation

What is "thredrsiverse"?

Response. RESPONSE!!!

This silence offends Slaanesh! More! LOUDER!

A very late comment for you

Had to comment too, we all have to do our part

BASED

Yeah! I’m doing my part!

You weren’t kidding about the impact of those potatoes.

I also just joined in the past month. You're welcome

I did because I was on a different Fediverse link-aggregating forum that was pretty quiet and getting quieter, and all the communities and threads I saw over there came from this instance. It just made sense to join directly so I could post and get proper notifications.

The supernova from Rexxit sent a lot of small pieces flying out everywhere, but things will start to aggregate back down to a few winners over time. I went to Squabbles, Kbin.social, and then Discuit... but now I'm just here and Discuit. I like Discuit's look and feel and users, but it's not super active.

<3

that guy is a legend and also confuses me every time I see him outside of a star trek community

Him and Stamets

I swear I see your username everywhere

OMG, LilDumpy left another comment! 📸

Thank you for your service.

Same. Never commented on Reddit but here there are fewer comments so I feel like I can contribute

I'm doing my part.

Given all the different ways “active” is defined we may as well just collect all the meanings available.

Mastodon and Twitter etc, for example, count logging on as active.

While I can see the argument for voting, it is qualitatively different from posting/commenting. Knowing both, as well as log in numbers too might make sense. But muddying the waters is probably confusing … though it is interesting that any instance can define what it means by “active”.

Ah, that could be it. I would like other instances to do the same, to me ama voting lurker is an active user

Okay, that makes more sense, I was trying to figure out what had changed in the past week. I'm very curious to see how that data would look for other servers too. I think it's more logical to count users even if they don't post or comment, because they are still a critical part of the whole ecosystem if they browse and vote regularly. Even without saying anything, their thoughts and opinions help shape the content and discourse through voting.

And for that matter, weekly active users and daily active users would be two other interesting datapoints. You can see the daily and weekly users on the sidebar of instances, but I don't know of any tool/site that scrapes all of that info and displays it in an easily digestible format.

According to Lemmy NSFW admin, there are 3 times more active users with jerkers.

FTFY

if you switch to daily stats you can see a big bump on the 4th, and a smaller bump on the 5th, is that when they made this change?

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I think if you exclude those 2 days we're still on a very very slight downward trend, but once every instance adopts the new method it'll be interesting to see what the trend is after that, it could be that users get tired or posting/commenting and fallback to being lurkers

Same situation for me. This is such a nice place compared to reddit. I still think it would be better if it grows some more, but one of the nice things about Lemmy is that it has a more "niche" user base

Yeah, same here. I'm not nearly as active here as I was on reddit, but there's not as much going on here and activity feeds itself. It's fine, I read more books.

Same here

I’m trying to use lemmy more

I’m posting more on lemmy now

I'm in danger

Same here unironically

It’s good to see more people moving to lemmy

I wonder how much of that has to do with fighting between moderators and subs being forcefully reopened

Same here

I’m trying to use lemmy more and post more content

Don't these people test their shit before release? Hobby devs have better qc than reddit

I thought that may have been intentional anti-adblock (just speculating).

Was my first thought. /r/friends doesn't work on the mobile site now and that's the only thing I ever go to back to Reddit for anymore. That's one content stream I can't duplicate anywhere else.

I still go to Reddit for American politics, my cities sub, and /r/nfl.

But I haven't made a single comment and treat it more as a news aggregator than a proper community. And even that is happening less and less as I get more comfortable with the pacing of the community here.

On Reddit you can make a clever comment at the right time and get thousands of upvotes and sidebar conversations. It's great for a shot of that sweet, sweet dopamine.

On Lemmy, I rarely get more than 5-10 upvotes, but the conversations are meaningful and nuanced.

People are realizing that Lemmy is not a 1:1 drop-in replacement and are adjusting their expectations and behavior accordingly. Hopefully we'll hit a critical mass soon.

I never experienced reddit 2013 but reddit's front page is gone. They've swapped out r/all for r/popular on new reddit, videos and screenshots are everywhere instead of links and they've even renamed themselves to "the heart of the internet"

We must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

🥱

Yeah shit, it was when redditors found you freaks that most of them left

True, too bad reddit is a bot driven platform now.

IMO reddit has loads of bullshit bots and boosting but sadly it has some good targeted communities too.

or gov guys with square haircuts who think this is what “those nerds” talk like

why is this making me laugh so much xD

Most posts are essentially ads in disguise. Bots are the ones running the show here too though.

So true, lol.

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

this is normal. we'll go through a lot of similar waves. people start servers, realize they're a lot of work, and then abandon them. servers that foster a healthy community will survive. hexbear's worst cycle involved losing the entire administrative team just weeks after a large percentage of the website left. don't sweat the growing pains - work together to learn, grow, and change.

Before the Reddit exodus, I don't remember many active servers besides Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad (there was Lemm.ee and Lemmy.ca but they both had like 3 posts a week). Hexbear wasn't federated, and servers were mostly being desperately spun up in anticipation for a flood of users who would crash the network.

The donations being down is bad though. I would love for at least Lemmy.ml to sticky a post asking for funding; one has to look no further than Thunderbird to see how well that works.

I'm gonna tell you something.

While reading your comment i became more and more convinced it would end with and don't let this man distract you from the fact that in 1998, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

Except then you didn't.

Which was a bummer.

We need to change the way we interact with social media.

My advice, points don't matter and you don't deserve anyone a debate.

Drop the phone or press back and go next if it feels toxic.

Internet should serve you and not the other way around.

If you have something to share, make your essay in a different post with the appropriate documentation and let it sit for someone else to find.

I can relate to your frustration about jerks and toxicity but I dont share the severity of it. At least I would not say it that way.

Yes, lemmy can get pretty bad (looking at you c/firefox) but that’s normal with niche stuff.

I moderate a smallish subreddit (2k peeps) and get regular questions if I can please ban the noobs that ask noob questions. I politely decline.

This place here is in its literal infancy and saying „its so sad that it will never…“ helps nobody.

Just report assholes, check if you made mistakes and if nothing else helps, make a new community based on that change. That is how we improve. Moaning and spelling doom is a bad strategy in every part of life.

On the other hand, since Lemmy is made up of a much smaller userbase, I've had a lot of success with just blocking users. When it's one user with 100 comments, it's a lot easier to solve the issue with the tools available to you as a user than on Reddit where you're more likely to have 100 different people making 1-3 comments each spouting blind rhetoric/useless exaggeration/unfunny meme responses. It's not big enough for people to bother too much with alt accounts or brigading yet either.

I do my best to stay away from posts with topics likely to attract that sort of crowd too.

In general while it's not as good as I hoped for, I find Lemmy/fediverse a hell of a lot better than what I left. People are going to be assholes wherever they think they can get away with it, and the best response is to starve them of attention.

Have you considered blocking people you don't want to interact with?

Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.

Speaking of the Simpsons, do you think the people on alt.nerd.obsessive were better?

I don't really see anything toxic. Unless you go to different instance which has certain reputations. I didn't realise I was in a tankie instance because I have all instances appear on my feed. I am still accustomed to Reddit just being managed in one site and occasionally stumble into communities full of morons. But since, Lemmy is still has not got much people, I can still spot communities that are toxic because I have seen them before, unlike in Reddit where multiple subreddits appear but serving one ideology or interest.

They keep a/b testing and rolling out worse and worse mobile websites. They've gone and done it again. For any regular mobile website user that wasn't affected by the 3rd party app issue, or for anyone who switched from a 3rd party app to the website because it wasn't as bad as the 1st party app, well... Now it is. Now it's possibly worse.

So, we might hope for a prolonged period of organic growth now. Especially if Lemmy doesn't get flooded with meta discussions again.

I'm wondering if it'll be similar to people switching from (convenient & centralized) Compuserve and AOL to (difficult but p2p) email and web. That took years.

You can still use old.reddit.com on your preferred browser without the app just fyi

I go back every now and then. Immediately reminded of why I left.

It's active users, not total users. I'm not sure on the exact metric, but users need to post, comment, vote or whatever to be counted for this statistic.