This is a better metric than registered users.
I'm enjoying this early stage of lemmy where everyone seems eager to use the platform. It's giving the same vibes as the old forums I used to participate in the early days of the internet.
We just need more content creators and we are set!
The comment sections have been pretty engaging in the communities that are getting established quickly, but I can't wait for more people to start posting. I have a community for SpacePorn and it's just me posting things and almost 100 people watching with the very rare occasional comment popping up. It's a little frustrating feeling like I have to keep entertaining everyone, when I just want others to join in 😅.
I’m in a similar situation in [email protected]. Getting people engaged is a bit like getting people to dance at a party, many people want to but someone has to break the ice… things I’ve tried is pinning a post asking people to stop by and say hi, also comment on each post so there’s something to latch onto, people won’t click in with 0 comments. You can also try a joke post to break the ice, in the case of SpacePorn you could combine a picture of a galaxy and a swimsuit model and say “Am I doing this right?!?” or something; it’s stupid but hopefully it makes someone laugh.
Made the !half_life community yesterday and it does feel like this. The only other post is a post my friend made so I could promote him to moderator. I don't have much experience so I'm not sure I'm able to fully understand your situation though.
Same. I‘m missing a lot of niche hobby subs (duh) over here which I’m mainly active on, and that‘s about it, honestly. Design and performance could be a lot better too. I‘ll stick around and see where it goes.
Ps, I just saw how many posts you’ve created and wanted to thank you for all the effort you are putting in here. I spend a ton of time surfing, and appreciate all the work that the technical people are doing to allow us to have a new home.
50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don't need to make accounts. It's very suspicious.
As long as a good amount of us refugees contribute to help make this a vibrant and interesting community by sharing thoughts and interests, this should go pretty well. I’m loving it so far. Cheers!
I think that is more complicated, as the channels need to generate revenue. Additionally, videos take up much more storage, and there is no option to select an instance like Lemmy. I only see options to selfhost.
Youtubers could gradually switch to PeerTube by uploading videos to both sites for now. They would make money the same way they do currently - through sponsorships and donations. I'm sure many of them can afford to host their own instance. It would actually benefit them, because if YouTube suddenly bans them for some reason, they would have an alternative that their fans would know about.
For the most part they seem to be. There's an instance with like 50k "users" but only 10 active, which tells me the bots are registering but most aren't being used yet.
It is a bit unnerving to have bots to human ratio that high on the network. I hope they will never activated and many compromized servers get cleaned before something bad happens.
That's kinda the thing? I don't see any spam or botting... Unless AI is doing all of it? Maybe spammers are setting up servers to Federate then getting de-Federated when they initiate their BS.
If you take a look on fedidb.org, there's a TON of instances with ~30,000 users but 1 active user. I checked one and the admin had commented that he had email verification off but manual approval on and wasn't getting anyone registering, so he turned manual approval off too. Welp.
I tend to sort by new and all, and it seems like the majority is bots copying posts over from reddit, they have original link to the post on Reddit but there is the bot disclaimer on a lot of posts recently. Maybe it will die down a little once these bots move all the data from reddit to lemmy
I don't post much other than memes but I comment lots and try to upvote quality posts. Reddit is dead to me, I spend too much of my time on social medias anyways.
You picked a good instance with lemmy.world because there's a lot of local activity already. That should keep you busy until you want to start interacting with other lemmy instances.
I hope that's the case, all this decentralized social media is really confusing, esp mastodon, some suggest to pick non-crowded instance but then your post wont appear on other instance (cmiiw)
It’s good to see. On June 30/July 1 we’re likely to see another big influx of users when the Reddit API changes go into effect and Apollo et al shut down.
Surprising it's gained this much traction, considering Reddit literally doesn't allow this site to be linked on their platform (which is honestly so petty)
I'm kind of new to the Fediverse, but since their username does not have a "@instance-name" it means he is on the same one as yours, right? Which would be "lemmy.world".
Just got here using WefWef as a daily Apollo user. I’ll be browsing daily after June since Reddit is killing third party apps. I think a lot of people are in the same boat.
Really neat to be along for the ride. Hopefully this momentum continues and the whole "There's no viable alternative" narrative is emphatically proven both false and idiotic.
Hi! I'm a new arrival. I left Digg for Reddit back when and now I've left Reddit for Lemmy! I won't be going back 'irregardless' and am very excited to see this community and the Fediverse at large progress through its growing stages! I would have left Reddit earlier and had been looking for an alternative for a few years now. I guess I owe Lifehacker a big thanks for the recommendation and the rest of you can hold them in your ire cuz here I am!