Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
As has been asked every time, how many are bots?
Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.
yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online
edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Honestly, if these instances don’t get their act together, I’d vote on my instance to defederate from it.
I’m usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.
The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.
Not me lol
Me either. I am a human person just like all of you!
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Welcome fellow human. It is great to be a human is it not?
floppy disk drive noises
Me here, fuck u/spez🖕
Fuck him!
I got a kick out of knowing he had millions of fuck /u/spez tags. He must know he’s a bellend before being rich. His disaster bunker article was absolutely hilarious.
It’s a good thing but also might not be good if hosting costs become unsustainable. I hope we can cope.
Maybe for a time we could donate. But longterm I think advertisers and REASONABLY priced API access might make sense.
Also it might be better to host the pictures externally. And run the pict-rs server as an imgur alternative or even use imgur and giphy as a hoster. They have pretty decent prices.
Edit: To all the downvoters. Do you really think a site that manages hundreds of thousands of accounts and pictures is indefinitely going to be run without problems by a few guys for free?
There are dozens of us! Baker’s dozens! (We come in 13s)
Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you’re doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).
If you can’t use critical thinking skills to analyze these numbers and understand bots are included, idk what to tell you bro. We can’t censor the world cause of a few dumb people.
If you don’t know what misleading means, idk what to tell you “bro”
We’re all bros here can we please get along?
I’m getting along fine with everyone, OP included (that got the point and Is now publishing reliable metrics), but if someone accuse me of wanting censorship just because I point out some info are misleading, you can’t expect me to say nothing about it, can you?
When will the bot situation be under control?
I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.
You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.
Are you a bot microwave?
I’m totally human.
That’s exactly what a bot would say!
Lol, your user name is how I pronounced nginx for years
What a weird way to pronounce that…
That’s where I got the name from lol. You’re literally the only person who’s ever pronounced it correct ;)
Post user activity instead? That has been suggested many times already as a far more reliable metric.
Not knowing when the bots will be under control is NOT a good reason to post misleading info, and you should know it.
Any particular website that you go to for post user activity?
I’m seeing total user comments quadrupled in the last 2 days alone (from 800k to 4+ million).
The site you linked has it, first graph is “Average Lemmy Active Users by Day” (hard to miss honestly), after that there’s the one you’re posting.
there’s also this (select active instead of total users): https://the-federation.info/platform/73
and this (check active instead of total): https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Geez I read your comment too fast and thought you meant “post user activity”. Thanks for sharing.
Yeehaw!
While this is good, I can’t help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.
Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.
If it means anything, universe and multiverse are the first that come to my mind.
That’s fair. Maybe I’m just chronically online, but it really skeeves me out how eerily similar some of the terms here are to crypto scams. Not saying this is one, obviously- as far as I can tell, there really isn’t any monetary incentive to run an instance-, but the language used at the moment can get uncomfortably close, which definitely might push people away.
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You’re really denouncing an entire decentralized open source eco system cause you don’t like that verse is a suffix that can be used for multiple things?
Jfc.
Please read what I said again. I don’t have an issue with the ecosystem, and I said as much in the original post. I have an issue with the branding of the ecosystem and am concerned that it’s hampering growth because of its associations with venture capitalists/crypto scams/metaverse scams, etc.
A million of us, a million of us!
Man, this shit is growing really fast. I would be super interested to see daily active users
To the moon XD
I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.
Welcome all you noobs
(don’t hit me, I just got here too)
Yeah, I’m here since we were at 5-10k… Like, two weeks ago lol
Is… is this an OG?
Lol it’s seriously crazy how much less active this place felt a couple of weeks ago. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be someone who was here years ago.
Right!? Even daily it seems like there’s more and more activity. I’m lovin itTM
Indeed. It’s getting better and better. Which means people are posting better quality stuff over here. “He who shall not be named” feels now a little weird when visiting it.
It feels old.
Can anyone explain what the point is of creating an instance and filling it with bots? Seems like it just costs money and time but with no benefit? Is it for a future spam campaign?
Is it for a future spam campaign?
Yes.
It’s mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
I’ve been posting like a madman. I hope to kickstart some activity. If this place looks halfway attractive on July 1st, it should bring in enough new posters from 3PA to make more communities self sustaining.
I had to leave behind a few communities that were small even on reddit, and hope to rebuild them better here.
Yeah, having enough activity is the only way we can make this place a viable Reddit alternative. That, and good third-party apps for a better mobile experience than Reddit. That alone could give the platform a serious edge, especially since 3PA users were some of the most active people on Reddit.
I’m not a bot, I used to post on Reddit only occasionally, (I was more of a lurker) and I only accessed it through the Apollo app. I strongly believe in the concept of decentralized platforms, and Apollo made Reddit more user-friendly by streamlining the tools, and reducing the number of ads. I recently joined Lemmy a few days ago and I already feel a surge of energy from enthusiastic migrant users like myself. If I thought my increased involvement here would contribute to meaningful discussions within the community, I will try to be more engaged. I hope that the influx of reddit users, including myself, can provide the boost that Lemmy needed without overwhelming the ‘instances’ themselves.
I’m not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would say, a-ha!
But no seriously, I hope there’s enough of us here to make a meaningful difference; enough to give the internet a new ‘front page’.
I came here four days ago and I’ve been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven’t made any new posts but I’ve been pretty active otherwise.
Super important to make this place a viable alternative, rather than just another graveyard.
undefined> how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
count me in!
Then let’s work together to make the Fediverse an actual thing, and take back control from spez and his ilk!
Will there be a point when the number of new users will need to be controlled?
hey boss…
yea?
remember that Lemmy thing you made a few years ago?
yea
more people use it than live on earth…
what? it was just last month that it went over 1 mil!
uh-huh
so you’re telling me there’s more that 10 billion users?
15 billion as of 2 hours ago.
the heck?
Oh sorry bout that, my pet chicken showed lemmy to his friends at the farm
