Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 1379 points –

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

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As always, you guys are way too fixated on size.

Thing is, you have to measure from the user base on the underside, this graphic obviously uses the wrong method.

Meh. Not like there are shareholders to appraise of growth…

Here too there are misconceptions!

What's important are the hard numbers, soft metrics like user count are misleading! Some may look large at first, but hardly grow with higher engagement, while in others engagement greatly increases the size.

True. Related to that I wish there were more engagement on lemmy. Most of the posts in my stream have zero replies or 1 and it’s the bot. But let’s keep smaller numbers - quality over quantity.

We’re not filtering for quality vs quantity at the moment, more people isn’t going to change anything for the worse there.

True, it’s not at all stage where it’s likely to be a problem. The army of very old persons isn’t at the door just yet ;-)

I feel like I want to contribute, I just haven’t found the right community yet…

Same for me. I started to chit chat a bit here and there just to have some more activity but I miss a community I like to be part of.

Lemmy alone creates more content that I care about. This is fine.

Not always

Lemmy still doesn’t create enough content that I want

But I try to use lemmy more anyways

Hopefully more people will use lemmy more

It's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean.

That’s true but it does take a long time to get to England in a row boat

Yes. Quality is the key thing about fediverse. Also - size doesn't mean everything. Black holes are small, but mighty. Lemmy sucks most of my spare time already.

My take away from this is lemmy is so good it’s actually a gravitational singularity pretending to be a social network