Fediverse now well past 14 Million total users

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On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

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Excellent. Never going back to reddit.

Progress is forward, not backward.

Forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and ever twirling, twirling toward freedom!

The only way is forward, retreat is not an option.

Reddit lost basically 90% of its appeal to me when they banned third party apps. I am also sleeping better since purging it out of my life so screw that.

They lost me when they multi acct/IP banned me over being super critical over how far they strayed from Aaron's vision of what reddit is supposed to be.

Also they are banning low level pr0n subs as a precursor to the tumblr purges to make them look good to investors.

Oooh, where can I read about this spicy news? I haven't been back to reddit since my app was killed

Ehh, I don't know. I keep vpn thats not (yet) banned to keep tabs on the goings on. I doubt anyone in the media will report because they are all of the same cloth.

But all my small pr0n subs were banned and I have an alt acct they don't have linked to my IP's.

-First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

-Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

-Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

-Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

First they came for the porn subs...

So, what shall we doo :-D

There's lemmynsfw! And also the same answer for any community growth: post content 😁

Agreed on the sleeping better. There are things it had that Lemmy doesn't but honestly I never want this site to catch all the way up. Reddit had become bad for me.

I'm still on reddit, but now its in the context of a saboteur/partisan. IP ban me, thats funny like clown shoes. I'm a human hand grenade.

I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I'm on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we've hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.

Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

I'm not sure how Reddit did it, but they'd show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.

Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it's bothering them too.

I'm with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can't get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it's like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don't want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).

Lack of algorithm? Sign me up!!!!

Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.

Ah, I see. I've never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.

You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon's are awful.

But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

No, I'm talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it's not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it's a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you're not careful enough.

Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it's a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.

It is as good as it sounds. You just have to put a bit of effort in yourself to follow your interests before it gets really interesting.

One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in...

I wasn't even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.

Chronological timeline doesn't really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.

I'm guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that's the case.

Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.

I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?

It's just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.

Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.

For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).

Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!

Yeah, it's actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.

Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i'm unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.

Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It's also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i've used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.

I've been having to watch my social media usage again. Which is bittersweet.

Haha, I'm right there with you. I'm off Twitter & Reddit, I had no alternatives until Sync came back...

It had taken me so many years to break my reddit addiction, then my friend introduced me to lemmy, and it's been downhill ever since 🥲

As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, I'm very thankful.

Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadn't been ready and waiting?

Based on the usual suspects from that one sub dedicated to alternatives: tildes, mastodon, or maybe one of the few devs who somehow managed to build their own alternative from ground up in a few weeks (how though?). The true question is, whether or not these other options would be worthwhile replacements and retain the refugees.

Tildes had potential but it's creators rule it with an iron fist. I'm not kidding either, it's a thinly disguised dictatorship.

More stats for those interested.

https://fediverse.observer/stats

https://fedidb.org/

This is what you wrote:

[https://fediverse.observer/stats]()
[https://fedidb.org/]()

You need to put the URLs between the parentheses instead. Or simply just paste the URLs directly without any markdown.

simply just paste the URLs directly without any markdown

Yeah this is what I did, thanks.

Working links:

https://fediverse.observer/stats

https://fedidb.org/

What are the differences between our links, as I don't see any at all?

Screenshot to show.

Would embed a picture If I could but on mobile currently.

You have nothing between the parenthesis.

[Example](example.com)

There is no parentheses at all, I'm unsure what exactly you mean. Apologies if I'm being incredibly dense.

Are you on lemmy? Are using an app?

It uses similar markdown to reddit, and something somewhere isn't talking right

I'm using Thunder for Lemmy currently though I also checked Jerboa, and Lemmy on my desktop and the links display perfectly fine for me on all three, as displayed in the screenshot I sent earlier.

What are you using? Could be that?

I use Jerboa. I just manually put in the links with the brackets and all.

Try editing with a browser.
Try also : three_dots, text_icon. Like :

Wow its Crazy, I think this is the end of an era for centralized social media. #fuckyoufacebook #fuckyoureddit #fuckyoutwitter

end of an era

... is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.

It's more accurate to say beginning of a new era where decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can't be put back in the bottle.

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Most people don't care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what's convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.

None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.

Well then you got a job to do. Send them meme links from lemmy , mastodon etc . The curious ones will find their way to fediverse.

We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.

Also, fuck anyone that looks like you!

Hahaa..you can also put a face using any .webp file so that I can say fuck you too. Easy to do it using a PC

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Just to clarify, this wouldn’t account for people making multiple accounts, right? I know people who have a mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account.

It most likely triple counts users like me. I have a Mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account, (all under the same username), but those would be counted as 3 Fediverse accounts. I think the metrics to look at are posts and comments.

Hey, honestly I'm unsure. Though my gut instinct would be that it does include those instances, hadn't considered it.

The number of users dropping in June when many bot accounts were removed, and then rising again at the same time that >1500 new servers were added, while MAU does not rise at the same rate, seems to suggest that many are in fact likely bots?

However, the MAU is rising, so that indeed is a sign of health even if the precise amount of traffic by humans is unknown.

And bot accounts serve useful purposes too, sometimes posting more worthwhile content than many humans.:-)

The user numbers on every site includes multiple accounts.

Great news! I wonder how many people have more than one account. I just made my second one because my 'main' server is down a lot lately.

Yeah, I had a total of 3 initially and now I'm just down to one, barring an outage of my main instance.

Same here. I think we would see tools and features that would facilitate switching your server.

For now you can just transfer your settings and subscriptions via LASIM

Also check out this page for various tools/info regarding Lemmy

same, but found an instance local to me thats actually half active which was surprising!

Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise

I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.

It's been great seeing the community grow. Hope this keeps up at a sustainable rate until Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. become mainstays.

Can't wait until they get so big I have to escape to tiny invite-only networks to recapture the "early days" feeling.

The content coming in lately has been awesome. Let's go..

Though looks like only some 7 million of them are active.

It's a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it's decentralized and most important of all : it's not big tech.

So.. more than threads then :p

(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling..)

if you find your instance unavailable jump to another. not at all like the old Tw down days. Thanks Fediverse

I'm so damn happy to be here for it. This place just feels like the back in the day kind of internet. Lemmy 4 Lyfe like I say, yes yes

Congrats!

Now if we can only keep the bots at bay!

I really like the fediverse and I couldn't imagine it blowing up like this 10 years ago. We've come a long way since then.