Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000
(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).
We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- And a small increase on Piefed: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: https://peertube.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Mastodon is all over the place: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for caring!
The Fediverse is more stable than my country’s government
Wow, I wonder why.
If only we could move as easily as we can switch servers.
Finna guess right quick.
US?
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
While the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
Short for fixing to, which now that I type it out, it makes less sense than finna
You nailed it. Short moment in time that anyone would agree though.
For further clarity, it’s a shortening of “fitting to” just like how “gonna” is a shortening of “going to.” As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.
While you’re on the right track, it’s fixing to, which to be honest doesn’t make any sense
Wiktionary suggests both “fixing to” and “fitting to” are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear “fixing to”. As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying “trying to” to mean “want to”.
Yeah finna boutta
I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
I came here from Reddit after figuring out the platform is beyond saving
Welcome to the Threadiverse! 😁
Ditto.
the problem with this place is it’s not user-friendly. and the posts/comments are too nerdy/niche for most people. my lemmy frontpage is like 50% linux nonsense. ordinary people dont’ know what linux is.
I see those posts all the time and even I’m not totally sure
Ordinary people know what Linux is, they just don’t care about. So the effect is the pretty much the same, but for different reasons.
Ive been here over a year and I still don’t know wtf is going on. I don’t know what aussie.zone is, I don’t know what “local” is versus “all”, I don’t know what “all” includes and why it changes. I don’t know how to find new subs except accidentally on “all”, my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.
But, after all that it’s still better than Reddit.
Aussie.zone is the server that you created your account on, think of it like having a yahoo email address. Some people have Gmail, some have outlook or iCloud, some have their own private domain. It really doesn’t matter too much because everyone can talk to everyone else, generally. Local is just every community hosted on Aussie.zone. All is everyone else and every other community in every other server that Aussie.zone is federated to (hasn’t blocked). Discover ability is certainly a problem and I’ve been here for two years and haven’t figured that out except stumbling on new communities on all just like you. You’ve pretty much got a handle on it it seems, I would just suggest a good client like Voyager to make things more intuitive on touchscreens if that’s what you’re looking for.
List of communities is there:
ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list
so decentralized, so Internet
Boon and bane
Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!
I think I’ll post it to !fedimemes@feddit.uk
Profile picture checks out
You had no idea what you were doing and somehow you still won
My problem is less the nerdy and niche stuff. Because there’s a lot of communities and you can subscribe to what you like.
My problem is more how there’s a lot of debate lords, arseholes, and I’m the smartest in the world types.
But I guess that’s the case on all social media. Really shits on what’s otherwise a nice experience here tho.
Are you saying that I am NOT the smartest person in the world?! That is news to me!
That’s because I am the smartest person in the world!
But someone has to be the smarted in the world, who are you to say it isn’t me? /s
if it’s less niche it will be flooded with ragebait and covert ads and such. better it stays a bit more niche. that’s why i’m fine with it being a little bit more nerdy than other mainstream platforms.
Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.
Most posts are links to other websites.
It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.
Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.
Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don’t want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.
It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.
And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.
Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.
I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.
The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?
The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.
I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.
We’ll see what happens I guess.
i think OC started to increase after 45 1st term, thats when people really jumped into social media for all the drama and content, and then found more drama(like livestream, and youtube,etc). i unkowingly used reddit(dint know it existed) around '13-14 ish for a console game. only til drumpf was elected then i moved over, before that i was still on Y’a answers enough.
I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.
There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.
thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning “QUESTIONABLE” subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.
the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.
Discussions are, arguably, their own type of OC. Like this thread as one example. That’s the kind of thing I, and I suspect @fujiwood@lemmy.world, would love to see more of.
too bad alot of them are still significant on reddit, and are unlikely to move here, unless they all get banned somehow. we might see more users here if reddit does another ban wave, although i think reddit mightve figured shadowbanning is much more useful.
For the last two years there’s been periods where I’d use Lemmy religiously for a month and then not touch it for three. Lemm.ee shutting down killed a lot of my motivation and excitement, but I’m back on the rollercoaster.
i noticed alot less content without lemee.ee, mainly because people scattered to other instances.
2-year lemm.ee user and general fan of all things Eesti, yeah. That one hurt. But I’m grateful my handle there still exists, and Lemmy’s still home, thanks to some very nice Canadians. Sure af ain’t going back to reddit/xhitter, etc.
for me it’s mostly when i get flooded by comments from extremist nutbags. at least on lemmy they arne’t reporting me to get me banned site-wide. they mostly just send me links via messaging to ‘educate’ me. which is annoying but not pathetic.
RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus’ wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.
Good to see you back!
Not sure how you define strong but MAU has been dropping quite consistently for the past year or so.
r/Redditalternatives describes the various reasons that people decided to abandon Lemmy and go back to Reddit:
- lack of content
- too difficult to figure out how to use
- it’s “the place that tankies built”
- too toxic, extremist leftists piling on anything not supporting their dogma hard enough, or sometimes just “too political”
- overall they do not feel welcomed. Tbf many on Reddit are centrists or even conservatives, and quite toxic themselves.
Notably, PieFed provides solutions to many of these e.g. the sign-up wizard that subscribes people to communities based on their indicated interests.
Conservatives: “All these big websites keep gradually sucking for some unknowable reason. They must all just have the wrong people in charge.”
I was referring to the entire fedi is losing users. Appreciate sharing about Lenin.
The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.
We need to keep this momentum going.
We need more federated systems
Glad I joined it!💪👋
We’re glad you’re here too!
Data looks great thanks for sharing
Is there a merch store or sumthing we can buy to advertise this awesome place and help support it?
Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?
yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline
Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.
I came to ask why everyone suddenly deleted their account
Probably.
Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.
No. Everyone just decided to stop using the fediverse a couple of times for like a day. Guess you missed it.
Touch Grass Day
All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later
Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here
What’s with masto’s spontaneous drop in posts and contemporaneous rise in users about a month ago?
it must’ve been a big instance going offline (or switching platforms? or blocking the stats collection?)
also note a lot of those graphs don’t start at 0, the Y axis is zoomed
Just joined eviltoast and using voyager. Loving the switch from reddit.
