Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?

"Millions of users" is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small -- assuming you're interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active "Lemmy" is is entirely dependent on which topics you're interested in.

There are dozens of us?

The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012

So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere

Active enough 🤷‍♂️

There's enough shit posts to keep most people happy.

All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so

I run into a lot of the same names, but I think that's fine (if not preferable)

I'm practically a fixture on Lemmy, and I view everything sorted by newest comments so I see only new posts and posts actively being participated in through replies and I'd say it's only slightly less active than Reddit appearance wise. Surely there is less things being posted over all, but I can just refresh the page every few seconds and get entirely new posts almost every single time, barring a few hours in the middle of the week.

I know that someone has a statistic site for Lemmy that could actually show you exactly what you wanna know, but I haven't saved the URL and don't know it off the top of my head.

About 0.04 million monthly active users

https://fedidb.org/

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.

Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.

That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it's better than bigger forums because you don't have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.

I can usually, on bad days when I'm not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That's about the sweet spot, imo.

I'm an active user who post and comment regularly, and I would say that the experience is very similar to Reddit. Except for less adds and smaller numbers on the main/all page. The experience is probably very different if you're mainly a passive consumer of content.

Though I've never been active in "large" subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I don't know what I'm missing.

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

The active user base is trending slightly downward as a few instances have shut down recently but the amount of registered users is steadily increasing so those trends will reverse as the largest barrier to entry is just knowing about Lemmy and creating an account.

Users: 467k

MAU: 42k

Posts: 10.8m

This active