From 3000 daily users to 41000 active daily users!
This is a better metric than registered users. I’m enjoying this early stage of lemmy where everyone seems eager to use the platform. It’s giving the same vibes as the old forums I used to participate in the early days of the internet. We just need more content creators and we are set!
The comment sections have been pretty engaging in the communities that are getting established quickly, but I can’t wait for more people to start posting. I have a community for SpacePorn and it’s just me posting things and almost 100 people watching with the very rare occasional comment popping up. It’s a little frustrating feeling like I have to keep entertaining everyone, when I just want others to join in 😅.
I’m in a similar situation in !ultralight@lemmy.world. Getting people engaged is a bit like getting people to dance at a party, many people want to but someone has to break the ice… things I’ve tried is pinning a post asking people to stop by and say hi, also comment on each post so there’s something to latch onto, people won’t click in with 0 comments. You can also try a joke post to break the ice, in the case of SpacePorn you could combine a picture of a galaxy and a swimsuit model and say “Am I doing this right?!?” or something; it’s stupid but hopefully it makes someone laugh.
I’ve got a piece of glass (fused silica, actually) that’s flown on multiple shuttle missions. Does that count?
* To be clear it’s a piece of glass from a 1” thick experiment window that failed it’s flaw growth recertification test (mostly due to human error) after being used several times. It was the biggest piece left after the explosion. 😁
Just tell me where to post photos of a Whippet in a hat and I’m there. 👍
yep! I’m not much of a conversation starter but love diving into comments, let’s hope it keeps growing
Same. I‘m missing a lot of niche hobby subs (duh) over here which I’m mainly active on, and that‘s about it, honestly. Design and performance could be a lot better too. I‘ll stick around and see where it goes.
Reddit refugee here.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes
As long as a good amount of us refugees contribute to help make this a vibrant and interesting community by sharing thoughts and interests, this should go pretty well. I’m loving it so far. Cheers!
Already dropped 10 or so comments :)
Make that 11!
Made a community :)
Sweet! What community?
I’m glad we’re taking off. The sooner we can shift our communities over to the fediverse, the better.
Surprising it’s gained this much traction, considering Reddit literally doesn’t allow this site to be linked on their platform (which is honestly so petty)
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Is there something I’m missing here?
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You said this had something to do with Spez admiring Elon, I don’t use Twitter or know a lot about the guy. So I just feel like I’m missing something here.
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Twitter was also removing links to Mastodon when people were leaving there. Im not sure if they still do, as I haven’t opened Twitter in over a year.
Yes yeees, amazing, keep making your users hate you reddit, hehehehe
Just got here using WefWef as a daily Apollo user. I’ll be browsing daily after June since Reddit is killing third party apps. I think a lot of people are in the same boat.
You love to see it
We did it Lemmy!
Gotta get used to saying that.
Finally, a useful stats as total user count skewed by bot spam.
Speaking of bots, they are still inactive aren’t they?For the most part they seem to be. There’s an instance with like 50k “users” but only 10 active, which tells me the bots are registering but most aren’t being used yet.
It is a bit unnerving to have bots to human ratio that high on the network. I hope they will never activated and many compromized servers get cleaned before something bad happens.
https://images.app.goo.gl/W6T158LnTE2V9MJF7
What are they up to out there…
Even if they do activate. Can’t we just defederate that entire instance. From what I have seen. Most of the bots are on instances with like 10 posts. We should just defederate all of those instances in which the user count is exponentially higher than the user activity.
Just joined. I really hope this kicks off, because it would be sad to see reddit prosper after all the greedy nonsense.
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Those are rookie numbers, the fediverse must grow ✌🏻👀
Next part of the Fediverse I’d like to see grow like that is PeerTube, so we can flip the Red Site a (few thaousands of) middle finger.
I think that is more complicated, as the channels need to generate revenue. Additionally, videos take up much more storage, and there is no option to select an instance like Lemmy. I only see options to selfhost.
I’m not sure what you mean about no option to select an instance. Here is an example instance with open signups: https://libre.video. You can find more here: https://the-federation.info/platform/29
Youtubers could gradually switch to PeerTube by uploading videos to both sites for now. They would make money the same way they do currently - through sponsorships and donations. I’m sure many of them can afford to host their own instance.
Thanks for the correction!
You can even subscribe to a PeerTube channel from Mastodon and get a toot when a video is posted. Like I just did with @arthurpizza channel ;-)
Nice!
I didn’t think I would get on with Lemmy but it’s actually really good!
It’s good to see. On June 30/July 1 we’re likely to see another big influx of users when the Reddit API changes go into effect and Apollo et al shut down.
