On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.
if you find your instance unavailable jump to another. not at all like the old Tw down days. Thanks Fediverse
and there was much rejoicing!
yaaay yaaay
Excellent. Never going back to reddit.
As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, I’m very thankful.
Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadn’t been ready and waiting?
10 milloin are Mastodon users
Mastodon is great!
Lemmy and kbin are getting there now that apps are coming out.
I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I’m on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we’ve hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
I’m not sure how Reddit did it, but they’d show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
Lack of algorithm? Sign me up!!!
It is as good as it sounds. You just have to put a bit of effort in yourself to follow your interests before it gets really interesting.
Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.
Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it’s a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.
Ah, I see. I’ve never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.
You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.
But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?
No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.
I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you’re not careful enough.
Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it’s bothering them too.
Where’s the AMA?
It’s in the accouncements community: !announcements@lemmy.ml
Thanks!
Glad to know that they know!
I’m with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can’t get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it’s like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don’t want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).
One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in…
I wasn’t even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.
Chronological timeline doesn’t really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.
I’m guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that’s the case.
reddit is for plebs at this point
It’s been great seeing the community grow. Hope this keeps up at a sustainable rate until Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. become mainstays.
Can’t wait until they get so big I have to escape to tiny invite-only networks to recapture the “early days” feeling.
I really like the fediverse and I couldn’t imagine it blowing up like this 10 years ago. We’ve come a long way since then.
And no big tech!!
Lets keep on keepin on!
I’m so damn happy to be here for it. This place just feels like the back in the day kind of internet. Lemmy 4 Lyfe like I say, yes yes
Though looks like only some 7 million of them are active.
Lurkers or double accounts?
Almost certainly both. And people who made an account but who didn’t stick around.
And bots. Bots for days.
NSFW alts LOL
So… more than threads then :p
(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling…)
It’s a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it’s decentralized and most important of all : it’s not big tech.
Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.
I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?
It’s just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.
Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.
For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).
Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!
Yeah, it’s actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.
Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i’m unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.
Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It’s also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i’ve used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.
I’ve been having to watch my social media usage again. Which is bittersweet.
Haha, I’m right there with you. I’m off Twitter & Reddit, I had no alternatives until Sync came back…
It had taken me so many years to break my reddit addiction, then my friend introduced me to lemmy, and it’s been downhill ever since 🥲
Good news!
Wow its Crazy, I think this is the end of an era for centralized social media. #fuckyoufacebook #fuckyoureddit #fuckyoutwitter
Most people don’t care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what’s convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.
None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.
Well then you got a job to do. Send them meme links from lemmy , mastodon etc . The curious ones will find their way to fediverse.
We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.
end of an era
… is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.
It’s more accurate to say
beginning of a new erawhere decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle.Definitely, chat rooms persisted for a long while after things like Skype started to rise.
Forums as well after Reddit
Skype and Teamspeak after discord
Also, fuck anyone that looks like you!
Hahaa…you can also put a face using any .webp file so that I can say fuck you too. Easy to do it using a PC
