From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.

An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users.

We’re really building something here!

  • BecomingTheFalcon@lemmy.world
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    From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?

    But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.

    Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.

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      I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:

      You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn’t Google isn’t my bro-in-law.

      She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.

      • ???@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yep, it’s email but with a nice interface and open ‘threads’ which we can post on.

      • BecomingTheFalcon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is probably my favorite analogy for it so far, at least as a high level overview. I kind of made the same connection myself and that’s when it clicked for me.

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        1 year ago

        This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I’ll be using this to help explain it to my friends

      • EddieTee77@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I’ll be using this to help explain it to my friends

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        1 year ago

        The email analogy has got to be the best way to describe the fediverse that I’ve seen so far.

      • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. People last week were adamant about needing to spread out new users across different instances. But let’s be honest, casual newcomers don’t really pay much attention to that. They just want to see a website a lot of content before signing up. The federation concept should be introduced a bit later after they’re comfortable.

      • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        yeah the people running this show need to understand that normies dont care about server hosting. they just want a feed with cat pics

    • ex_redditor@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The thing that’s weird to me is that say I like football (soccer). I’m sure there are dozens of “instances” have a soccer community, but which one should I follow? It seems like this architecture fragments the user base too much.

    • ???@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, there should be simple “how and where do I sign up and find my favourite communities”. I feel like there is lots of tech talk here because lots of tech stuff needs to happen before these sites are ready for the full moderation suit and for supporting the most basic aspects of Reddit communities (like flairs)…