- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- lemmyworld@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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!
With miniature American flags for some?
Abortions for others!
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.
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.
If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two.
Brick by brick, baybee. We’re building out here
Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!
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.
Where’s the AMA?
It’s in the accouncements community: !announcements@lemmy.ml
Thanks!
Glad to know that they know!
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.
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.
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?
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.
Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people 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…
Chronological timeline doesn’t really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.
I wasn’t even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.
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.
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.
What are the differences between our links, as I don’t see any at all?
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
Interesting that Germany and France have such a large number of servers.
Try editing with a browser.
Try also : three_dots, text_icon. Like :
Thanks!
and there was much rejoicing!
yaaay yaaay
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 erawhere 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.deleted by creator
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
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.
The content coming in lately has been awesome. Let’s go…
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.
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…)
Lurkers or double accounts?
NSFW alts LOL
Almost certainly both. And people who made an account but who didn’t stick around.
And bots. Bots for days.
Awesome, let’s keep those numbers rising!
if you find your instance unavailable jump to another. not at all like the old Tw down days. Thanks Fediverse
10 milloin are Mastodon users
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!
