I thought being a Reddit Refugee was going to be tough but I’m pretty happy with this setup and using the beta of Memmy. It’s like a fresh start
I’m pretty certain this is just mastodon users, the Lemmy and Kbin usercounts are quite tricky to track.
This recent push of Masto users I believe were being attributed to musks rate limits and restriction of anonymous reading of tweets.
NOTE: This graph does not show the entire fediverse, but only mastodon. Hopefully OP can change their title to reflect this.
And also it’s not really due to reddit, it’s mostly the twitter changes that make their users switch to Mastodon.
That is also correct. This post is just very… wrong.
Does lemmy allow editing titles - or is that up to each instance and in that case, does lemmy.world allow it?
Yes. You should be able to edit posts.
It seems to be allowed. But for some reason people don’t do it, even when mistakes are pointed out.
IMO, probably because you couldn’t on Reddit… People haven’t figured out that this platform allows more freedom to users than Reddit does.
That’s very odd, glad to know it’s possible though.
can i get the source?
It looks like the graph from the “Mastodon user count” bot: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount
However, this bot counts MASTODON users - not fediverse users. The graph has probably nothing to do with reddit exodus but with Musks announcement that birdsite users can only see 300 posts until they register and pay.
Hopefully the onboarding process is made easier, I am not saying it’s hard - it’s just not as simple than something like Reddit.
The federated aspect of things needs to be explained and dumbed down a little, hopefully apps can come in to bridge that gap.
Otherwise enjoying it!
Are there really over 10 million lemmy users? I almost don’t believe it
Nearly 13 million apparently. The active users count is more useful for weeding out bots and people who sign up and then forget about it. I’m not sure where that stands.
This website here (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy) that tracks Lemmy statistics shows around 60,000 monthly active users but no telling how accurate this is. It seems we’re in the middle of a major event taking place with people shifting over so it could take some time before we know how many people really left Reddit and moved here.
The largest current Lemmy instance alone (lemmy.world) only came into being a little over a month ago, just about the time Reddit dropped their stink-turd announcement about their intent to API-price third-party apps out of existence.
It now sits at about 80k users. It was right at 60k just before those apps stopped working, so it’s grown significantly just in the last 48 hours. No idea how long we can sustain this kind of growth, but it’s good to see this space blossoming into its own cool thing.
This says 300k but I’m not sure how updated it is and what the figure includes https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
This isn’t just Lemmy. It’s also Mastodon and other activitypub services.
Ahhhh, makes more sense. Mastodon blew up considerably earlier.
kbin instance, calling in! And that’s the cool thing. It’s not just one website, or even one project. But we can all still communicate.
After weeks of not really wanting to go through the “hassle” of setting up an account, I finally just sat down and did it and it’s been cool so far. Took me a bit to wrap my head around the fediverse.
I’ve found it’s a lot easier to get your head around with wefwef on IOS. It’s basically simplified everything into an app I’m used to using with reddit
I like the fact I can use it on Android too
https://i.imgur.com/ZD210y8.jpg
plus updoots, and then, we’ve also got old reddit on mobile within two days of migrating
We didn’t noticed that at all 🤣
Ah, the day with the bots was a fun one
Maybe people don’t know which instance to use and just made several… Raw stats doesn’t show the real number of people. I made like 4 on different instances when I joined.
That is a thing, although I believe the vast majority has only one account. Some two, much fewer more. It is only natural that those with more accounts are more visible in conversations - much less people will tell you they made only one account, because they aren’t that much aware of that possibility.
But mostly, I believe the multi account crew is dwarfed by the bot army. So overall, the multi accounts probably don’t change much about the numbers.
This is me.
Made like 4 accounts for different instances, and then my app Im using just congregates them all onto a default view like looking at a reddit home page with different subreddits
It’s pretty confusing as a new user
my app Im using just congregates them all onto a default view like looking at a reddit home page with different subreddits
That’s how this ‘federation’ thing works, you don’t need multiple accounts for that.
Raw number of accounts doesn’t seem meaningful as long as captchas are off.
This graph is from the Mastodon user count bot, which I’m pretty sure only counts Mastodon instances: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110647916455518837.
I’m not sure why OP said it’s for every fediverse service.
Apollo refugee here learning about this new federated world. Is this specific to some servers? I signed up to lemmy.world and lemme.ee to have a bit of an explore and both required a captcha.
If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.
There’s almost 2 million zombie accounts on random unknown instances that have captchas disabled.
All the main instances should be almost all legitimate users.
After being here a few weeks, your “home” server doesn’t matter too terribly much, as long as it stays federated with other servers. You can subscribe to communities (subreddits) in other servers and they’ll appear on your feed. It’s kinda cool. You do have to do a little more work building your communities you want to see and participating, as there no algorithm to tell you what to see. It’s with it though! Sort by Hot or Top Day and you’re good to go!
no creo que se molesten en registrarse con bots en un sitio que ni mercado ni beneficio hay…
I don’t think they bother registering with bots on a site that there is neither market nor profit…
I’m worried that Reddit and other social media giants would start DDoSing fedverse servers to kill off competition…
We’ve got an election coming up in 16 months in the US. So I imagine we’ll see a lot of bots registering soon.
Tenemos una elección en 16 meses en los Estados Unidos. Así que me imagino que veremos muchos bots registrándose pronto.
They do for some reason, we have had a serious problem of thousands of bots registering on instances with no protection, admins have been working hard to put the situation back into control.
Lo hacen por alguna razón, hemos tenido un problema grave con miles de bots que se registran en instancias sin protección, los administradores han estado trabajando arduamente para volver a controlar la situación.
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You can check this website for looking at the “active user”, I think only users that comment are counted. https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
I thought being a Reddit Refugee was going to be tough but I’m pretty happy with this setup and using the beta of Memmy. It’s like a fresh start
Same. I’ve been posting and talking more here than I did on Reddit. I kind of just lurked there. The community seems better here so far.
Same over here, memmy is amazing
Any word on memmy App Store approval?
Most likely got rejected otherwise it would be available rn i think
where does one acquire memmy?
Theres a testflight version available, just look for the link its pretty easy to find,
I just got a message that the beta is full when I tried to download it.
I wonder if at some point this will happen with twitter to mastodon. I know mastodon has currently larger community then lemmy, but I believe there never was this moment of sudden growth.
12 millions users? Really?! Couting Mastodon in I guess, so all of fediverse. That’s amazing.
That’s Mastodon yes, and mostly due to twitter messing up. Lemmy users are nowhere near these numbers, but yes it’s still nice to see!
Let’s keep it up, this place is great. I have not missed Reddit. Feel like I was in a cesspool without knowing it
Totally.
There was a former reddit mod on here a few days ago talking about how a small percentage of users make most of the posts/comments there. Personally, I’m glad to get away from that.
There may not be much content here, but at least the average person can be heard.
It’s actually quite refreshing typing out a comment and not just erasing what I wrote right away like I would always do on Reddit. I always felt like there was hardly a point putting effort into comments on Reddit, unless I was on a more niche sub. Now, everywhere is niche!
So other people had this experience? Happy to know I wasn’t alone and going crazy.
Exactly. Feels like my voice is actually heard here. I’m enjoying the smaller community for now 🙂
I heard the rule of thumb with social media is 1/9/90. 1% are poster/content creators 9% are commenters 90% are lurkers
Just need to attract that 1% and the house of cards comes tumbling down.
Lurker on Reddit. Trying to be more outgoing here. Maybe those stats will change
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I am one of them. I try to comment now on Lemmy especially when I see other people mention being Reddit lurkers.
It’s something small that means a lot when added together. One comment a day means you are an active user.
This 100%
Same!
I’ve missed Reddit but I’m realizing now the number of times I’ve reflex clicked Apollo that my usage was unhealthily heavy.
I’m enjoying Lemmy and due to both it being new and more empty (but enjoyable!) I’m online much less and I think it’s a good change.
That plus the communities here are small enough that k feel like my posts or comments are actually seen and responded to now which is nice!
This has been an easier transition than mastodon. On Twitter I relied on specific people’s content to feel like it was worth my time. Not all of them moved over or posted much
On Reddit I just need replies in topics and it can be by anyone
I’d like to move to Mastodon so badly, but none of the people I follow (mostly YouTubers) have moved there so I don’t have any reason to be on mastodon…
with lemmy it’s way easier because I don’t need certain people to be here
Yeah but it may be an Eternal September kind of situation.
I can’t judge tho, I’m a reddit refugee myself.
I mean let’s be honest…we all knew it was a cesspool lol
Same with Twitter, I don’t mind wading through the odd cesspool if it means I’ll run into some good people and fun memes but both Twitter and Reddit really went to shit, and quickly too.
