Kbin + Lemmy has just ticked over 100k active users
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Even though there are 100k active users, it still seems slow. I know it'll take time to change, but I have already seen improvement in the three weeks I've been here.
It seems slow until it doesn’t. We’ll all get to that point where we are happy with what we have.
It's slow, but I'd argue that the quality is better. So that kind of makes up for it a bit, imo. And being slow means more people can just browse everything Federated on the front page (of K-bin at least) and get into new stuff they wouldn't have considered before.
Quantity is a quality of its own. While there is some great stuff here, there is also a lot that is missing. Many great discussions either don't even start because nobody who see the intersting article to link it. Or in the few cases it is linked few are in that niche and get involved in the discussion.
This depends a lot on exactly which niches you are interested . Reddit has a lot of niches that each have a good number of intersting people adding to the discussion. Kbin/Lemmy has a few, and if you like the large topics everyone talks about has plenty, but the millions of small niches are lacking still . Heres to that changing .
Even Reddit didn't fully solve that problem. When you go outside of the general topics it an be surprising how slow activity can be. That's simply the nature of the niche.
There's no real way to solve that without simply being that change yourself. Because those niches tend to have the 2-3 same users posting half or more of the discussions or links.
Reddit is supposed to have 52 million daily active users.
So yea, with < 0.2% of the users compared to reddit it is a bit slower.
Reddit has always been slow as fuck.
I think it is best that it is organic. Lemmy (the software) is still in alpha/beta state so it still in its infancy. And a large sudden influx of users will ultimately overwhelm instances.
You're in a kbin magazine, kbin is alfa at best :). But things are changing fast because of the rapid increase in users.
Oops. And that's the beauty of the fediverse. I wasn't even aware that I was posting in a Kbin magazine. I was using the app Memmy.
I'm starting to come around to the idea that kbin/Lemmy doesn't need to experience massive amounts of user growth in order to succeed, and I'm not certain that we'd even want anything approaching the userbase that Reddit has. Similar to how not every city needs to be NYC, and some people prefer living in a smaller city.
I suppose there's a happy medium between "wow this place is dead" and "the cacophony of voices makes posting here feel like shouting into the void" that we're shooting for.
1% of reddit users would be fun, that would be about a 10x increase in current daily users?
The stat I saw was ~70 million users for reddit, so a 7x increase would put us at 1%.
I think the problem is finding communities that are what you actually want. The killer feature of reddit was that you could find a subreddit for basically any niche.
This was not the case for a number of years on Reddit. I think only the last 4 years have been basically if I need topic I can find it.
I've always preferred smaller communities, hell I live in the damn woods (:
2 days
It might prove to be an interesting weekend.
On the one hand it's sad that 3rd party apps are officially gonna be dead but on the other hand I'm really looking forward to it! End of an era. Perchance.
I will miss Apollo. Though I do have to say, I’m really enjoying the Memmy app for Lemmy. It’s Apollo-esque.
We need to figure out how to tap the mass migration. There's nothing proprietary about an internet forum that should lock people to subpar platforms or corporations.
There really are dozens of us!
Its trending in the right direction. July will tell us a lot and we're gonna see if the hardcore users migrating (the people who actually post a lot of content) will force those more casual users to come here as well.
Yeah July 1st will change everything.
I'm trying to get in to it. Like it for the most part so far. Question tho.. Am I just dense or can we not collapse comment trees? old.reddit made it super easy to minimize the reply comments under a parent so you can quickly scroll down to the next.
On Lemmy it's easy, on Kbin I have no idea.
Just signed into Kbin and yeah I have no idea how to do that either.
I liked kbin initially, but Lemmy just has a few added familiar features and a little less chaos. Hopefully it'll get in line in the future with the basics.
Yeah you guys are right. Trying out Lemmy now with wefwef and I think I’m home 🥲I’ll keep bouncing around until the dust settles but I’m pretty happy with this setup right now. Still gotta learn the ins and outs to federated shit.