To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

I've been enjoying that fact lately, it's been nice to have actual conversations with people, to actually have my thoughts challenged in healthy ways and to have my mind change and to change the minds of others without the intensity that predominates a lot of other sites. I feel I can talk to people here

It's me, your favorite lemming!

Tbh I want this to be 500k users and no more. That would be enough for most of my interests.

Especially when you see the same couple of people with profile pics post everywhere.

I see a lot more, you need to expand you communities maybe ;)

Thats because America alone has something like 3.5 BILLION people in it. Ohio alone has 11 million citizens. I assure you 95% of ohio is farms and cows, and we STILL have 11 million. Sometimes I wonder if they include the cows in that number.

My point is, 50k in scale to how big the internet is (and thats just America.....the internet is the world. Except for north korea).

So, 50k is not really a lot. Especially when you consider that this userbase is fragmented by design.

I feel like this is the smarter design for this type of format. I also feel like this format could be so much more than it is. And it's because this format relies on the idea that you have to please everyone. Otherwise they'll defederate.

Well when I was 7 years old there was a girl at school who didn't like me. My great aunt edna asked what the other kids thought of me. They liked me ok. I had some friends. It was just her that actively disliked me. So my great aunt edna says some advice that has stood the test of time. She told me "In life, not everyone is going to like you. The only thing you can do is be yourself, make sure they don't dislike you because you're being a problem, and then surround yourself with people who DO like you. Let the others dislike you. As long as you're not being a problem child, you can only stay true to yourself, and likeminded friends will follow."

And even though she said this in the 80s, and has been dead for decades, her words speak true in my 40s today. Essentially the modern version would be "haters gonna hate".

So if there's 50k users, and they're segregating into their own spaces, it's going to feel more like 1000 users. And now take into account time zones, and individual schedules, it'll feel more like 200 users.

The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that those 75 users are in an ecosystem with the 50k+ Lemmy/K/mbin users, along with users from Sublinks, Mastodon, Firefish, etc.

PieFed represent! Highly recommended, the 'Topics' feature that aggregates multiple community is super valuable to me

And a whopping... 3 servers?

Seems like a cool project though, along with sublinks. Might try them out once they are a bit more stable.

I think it's just a comparison because during the Reddit Exodus people often suggested Discuit instead of Lemmy because ActivityPub is "too complicated". So I guess this is a good demonstration that federation really is our best hope at replacing the big billionaire social media platforms.

As another point of reference vs Discuit's 6,787 registered users, Lemmy has 1,904,195 registered users. Kbin has 66,175, and Mbin has 5,453 registered users.

Last time I saw something, I think it was about 300.

There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don't check it frequently enough anymore to know if there's a current Picard maneuver surrogate.

Negative. It was usually quoted by ActivityPub skeptics who were looking for a centralized solutions, "easier to use".

I was never aware of the numbers, I'm surprised how much smaller it is.

No they don't, nor will they according to their about page.

About as badly as lemmy has been coopted by tankies