Lemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday!
Lemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday!
Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).
If you can't use critical thinking skills to analyze these numbers and understand bots are included, idk what to tell you bro. We can't censor the world cause of a few dumb people.
With that said user activity, number of posts, number of comments submitted per day would be a nice metric to look at.
As has been asked every time, how many are bots?
I guess it's kind of like the saying bad ice effects both teams. Both reddit and the federation are going to have bots. Competitors aren't differentiating bot accounts vs user accounts, so why should the federation?
How many people browsed reddit without an account, but made one for lemmy to show support?
At least one.
I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.
Yes this is my situation as well. Not doom scrolling Reddit. But scrolling Lemmy with interest.
My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.
im also a reddit refugee.
While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.
Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.
If it means anything, universe and multiverse are the first that come to my mind.
That's fair. Maybe I'm just chronically online, but it really skeeves me out how eerily similar some of the terms here are to crypto scams. Not saying this is one, obviously- as far as I can tell, there really isn't any monetary incentive to run an instance-, but the language used at the moment can get uncomfortably close, which definitely might push people away.
You're really denouncing an entire decentralized open source eco system cause you don't like that verse is a suffix that can be used for multiple things?
Jfc.
Please read what I said again. I don't have an issue with the ecosystem, and I said as much in the original post. I have an issue with the branding of the ecosystem and am concerned that it's hampering growth because of its associations with venture capitalists/crypto scams/metaverse scams, etc.
Branding matters, even if the product is solid.
I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.
Exactly, I'm hanging here around for the past few days and I'm getting pretty comfy with lemmy. I'm beginning to like it a lot and use it now as my main page when firing up the browser ánd also replaced the Apollo app on my iPhone with "MemmyApp" which makes the ride so much better imho.
Good luck and have a little patience. Every day that passes, makes Lemmy a better place to chill.
once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.
Sync's dev is making a Fediverse app, and a ton of Apollo-inspired apps will eventually show up for iOS. Christian joining in on the fun would be sick, but...honestly, I highly doubt it.
Hope @ruud is prepared for Jun 30 when RIF will go down... redditors will flood us
Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?
I’ve been posting like a madman. I hope to kickstart some activity. If this place looks halfway attractive on July 1st, it should bring in enough new posters from 3PA to make more communities self sustaining.
I had to leave behind a few communities that were small even on reddit, and hope to rebuild them better here.
Yeah, having enough activity is the only way we can make this place a viable Reddit alternative. That, and good third-party apps for a better mobile experience than Reddit. That alone could give the platform a serious edge, especially since 3PA users were some of the most active people on Reddit.
I’m feeling more convinced this is the way to proceed here. Even if just for the next few months. If quality and numbers improve maybe we can ease off. However, for now, I’ll make it a point to be more chatty, and support quality content (especially what’s originating here). I will not just lurk like I did when I was a member of Spez’s turd world.
I came here four days ago and I've been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven't made any new posts but I've been pretty active otherwise.
Super important to make this place a viable alternative, rather than just another graveyard.
I’m not a bot, I used to post on Reddit only occasionally, (I was more of a lurker) and I only accessed it through the Apollo app. I strongly believe in the concept of decentralized platforms, and Apollo made Reddit more user-friendly by streamlining the tools, and reducing the number of ads. I recently joined Lemmy a few days ago and I already feel a surge of energy from enthusiastic migrant users like myself. If I thought my increased involvement here would contribute to meaningful discussions within the community, I will try to be more engaged. I hope that the influx of reddit users, including myself, can provide the boost that Lemmy needed without overwhelming the ‘instances’ themselves.
I'm not a bot
That's exactly what a bot would say, a-ha!
But no seriously, I hope there's enough of us here to make a meaningful difference; enough to give the internet a new 'front page'.
I think it will be similar to reddit, where a small percentage of people produce content while the majority lurk. I used to lurk a lot on reddit, but I hope to change that here (I feel it's important to be active to help drive activity).
That's going to be any platform, really. I feel like there might be more content posters here literally for the reason of boosting it and hopefully having a competitor on equal grounds to reddit. Right now, reddit is still winning in content and features, but it obviously has been around for longer and has a massive user base. It will take time, but with enough motivation provided by the despise of spez, it's possible. I don't think it will take down reddit, but it will make reddit no longer the only option.
undefined> how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
count me in!
Then let's work together to make the Fediverse an actual thing, and take back control from spez and his ilk!
Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.
not a bot
That's exactly what a bot would be programmed to say.
j/k. Er, sort of.
More bot activity is still a good sign too, I think. They're following us to this boat just like they did with reddit.
Damn, I'm happy to see it moving so fast.
Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:
https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741
Daily active users is a better measure:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)
The lemmy.dbzer0.com instance admin is working on some code to try to monitor the bot situation:
It’s pied piper all over again. “How many DAUs would you think is bad?” “What if we do a click farm”
I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.
Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.
Create your own niche communities then! If others find that it exists, they’ll post to it. If everyone waits for someone else to start the niche community, no one will start the niche community.
What niche hobbies are you waiting on communities for?
Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.
Well they have porn so I'm here for it
Yeah I agree I'm already donating to lemmy hopefully more people can join in on that and make the fediverse a better place.
Can't wait to see this chart come July 1st and the days the follow!
A million of us, a million of us!
Man, this shit is growing really fast. I would be super interested to see daily active users
To the moon XD
Unfortunately, some of those users are bringing the worst of Reddit with them. Their is an explosion of low value cutesy comments.
Meh, people will soon figure out they don't get any karma from it so (hopefully) people will stop going for the low hanging fruit
I need my dopamine hit
Yeah, fucking migrants. Only bringing problems.
(/s, just to be sure)
Just like the old Digg migration days. Soon you will forget about those Diggers and accept them as your own.
With all the bots, there's still an explosion of user activity. Each time the bots are mentioned, you can also look up by instance and track the user activity, which has a growth trendline that looks very similar to all the other metrics that are gaining.
Count me in.
Can anyone explain what the point is of creating an instance and filling it with bots? Seems like it just costs money and time but with no benefit? Is it for a future spam campaign?
Is it for a future spam campaign?
Yes.
Will there be a point when the number of new users will need to be controlled?
Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.
It's a good thing but also might not be good if hosting costs become unsustainable. I hope we can cope.
Maybe for a time we could donate. But longterm I think advertisers and REASONABLY priced API access might make sense.
Also it might be better to host the pictures externally. And run the pict-rs server as an imgur alternative or even use imgur and giphy as a hoster. They have pretty decent prices.
Edit: To all the downvoters. Do you really think a site that manages hundreds of thousands of accounts and pictures is indefinitely going to be run without problems by a few guys for free?
I'm happy to transfer my Reddit Premium subscription over to here to help fund instances while they work out a long-term model. I know servers aren't free.
Any idea why I can't create a new post? It just spins forever the past 2 days.
It might depend what instance you signed up through/device you use. I was having troubles from desktop with lemmy.world, but they did some tech voodoo magic for the server it's hosted on so it's been mostly smooth all week. It's consistently worked pretty well from the jerboa app for me tho
What language you selected in the drop box? Try with both Undetermined and English.
Let's goooooooooo
thats good
Yeehaw!
Greetings fellow humans 👋🏼
I've tried Lemmy a bit last night. I know Lemmy threads can be searched and browsed here and I'm not sure it matter, but if it does I hope it's Kbin that wins the mass adoption war. I'm finding the Kbin UI experience more enjoyable. I also appreciate the way it combines a microblog tweet like feature with reddit type usage into the same platform.
What's "here?" I'm viewing your comment using Jerboa logged into @lemmy.world, LOL.
That said, I ought to try out kbin at some point.
From what i've heard it doesn't matter who wins. Kbin can interact with posts on lemmy and lemmy can interact with posts on kbin.
Yes but kbin at the moment is more user friendly so if someone from reddit who is not tech savvy tries to migrate to fediverse, kbin would be a much more convincing option, especially since no one really realize there other instances of kbin much like lemmy and everybody just goes to kbin.social. So no choice paralysis about which instance to join which I reckon is the big part of the problem of transitioning from reddit.
This is bananas.
Also spez is a pedophile fuck him
we can freely say that here without fear of being banned from tbe sitezz