this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a live chart available?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s two at fediverse observer and fedidb.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us.

I am one of the proud new users, and this is great to see!

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

Welcome! It feels fresh to not be on a big tech platform.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 119 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (11 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

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[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 196 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit's desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 56 points 4 days ago (15 children)

The user growth we're seeomg could result in an overwhelming flood of users at anytime. Which is why people should consider supporting the lemmy devs and instance admins either financially or through contributions so that the lemmy software and infrastructure is ready to handle the growth.

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[–] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yeah. Reddit is currently enshitifying in overdrive. They used to just do dumb features nobody wants, but now they are actively harming the base. The entire Luigi over-moderation this is just bad, and it feels like they want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now. and even if I do have to use it, the website often tends to not function properly these days, with the site constantly reloading, or voting functions to be broken. This is the year of lemmy.

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[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 143 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Worth noting is that what counts as an "active user" has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an "active user" was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.

[–] Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 55 points 4 days ago

Huzzah, us lurkers now count towards the global stats!

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I've quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 22 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Its still a shame that I will never recommend this place to anyone I know until the community changes here.

Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn't even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn't melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for "the normies".

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section

I think this depends highly on the type of community. (Although clearly I'm doing it to you right now. Sorry.)

Highly political topics and such are the worst, probably. But others where people come because of a shared interest, like a sport or food or animal or something, a hobby, I think tend to be more chill and mellow.

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[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago

Me too, but I still prefer this place to reddit. I have the same exact gripe: those that must be the most right. I've just found a lot more of them on reddit than lemmy. I have lost count of the amount of times I start to write something on reddit, then imagine how someone somewhere, from some angle, can decide to be offended if they want to, then just delete the comment. It definitely happens on lemmy too, it's just in my experience it has happened less here, so I have been more willing to type out comments here. It really sucks that this has not been your experience.

[–] Zero@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just keep posting and being the type of person you want to see as a community member here. The other site was exactly like you described above for a very long time!

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[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 74 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

[–] Lexxly@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I'm hating people

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

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[–] Picasso@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 78 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Woo! That's awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

We are already successful, I'm seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

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[–] bndkt@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m pretty new, but I like it here. It feels bigger than 54k MAU, probably because everyone is really active.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

It also feels like half the activity on Reddit now comes from bots. It makes it feel emptier than it probably is to me when I go visit there occasionally, especially on the big subs. Which then makes me focus on the small subs, which end up feeling smaller or equal to the fediverse already, just on more niche topics.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 3 points 2 days ago

I completely agree!

Posting/commenting on Reddit largely feels like a waste of time to me if it’s not something big and attention grabbing. I would get zero people to interact for days, while on Lemmy I usually get a reply within a few hours if I have a question about a post.

Of course this isn’t evidence of anything, but I feel that it’s because Lemmy hasn’t been flooded with bots (yet? Hopefully never).

[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 days ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

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[–] amos@mander.xyz 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

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[–] imetators@lemm.ee 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 64 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps to not be shit. looking at reddit.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 4 days ago (18 children)

To anyone new wondering about phone apps for Lemmy, I use "Thunder" and it works great.

Also, feel free to say Luigi without getting banned.

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[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

I'm beyond thrilled! can't wait to see some of my favorite communities spring up here.

[–] match@pawb.social 46 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm calling this one the exodus of st mangione

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You know it's bad for Reddit when people were even talking about going back to Digg

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[–] kane@femboys.biz 55 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Makes me happy to see it, a future for a platform that is not locked by a single large player. Instead, I can have my own profile that I actually own and do not “lend”.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 58 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's so nice to see the servers are not crashing anymore this time around like how Lemmy.world did for me a few times back when I first joined in 2023 and I remember when the only app that was available on ios was just Wefwef before Memmy and Mlem came out of testflight. Today the apps are much more developed as we now have: 6 ios apps, 10 android apps, advanced search, moderator tools, user tags, in-app video playback, baby account indicator, advanced markdown editors, crossposting, watch support, expanded customizations, content filters, fediseer integration, side by side posts, alternate sources menu, song service integration, direct messages in app, gallery view, local sub count on communities, troll buster, user theme directory, open web post in app, gestures, media bias check, alt check and personal contribution stats.

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[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 43 points 4 days ago (22 children)

The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don't lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.

Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.

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[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It is really awesome here. Like the good ol internet days.

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