Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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I wonder how much of that decrease is a result of instances shutting down and their users migrating off of Lemmy to platforms like PieFed and others. The users may not be completely gone, just not on Lemmy.

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we peaked mid 2023, i have posted 2.8k comments in 2.5 years, so my work complements yours

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Piefed helped a number of communities reparent to their homeserver as-is when lemm.ee closed down, definitely a valid theory. [email protected] community final posts if you're keen to farm data.

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I’m curious what you think makes email easy enough to understand for the general population, but lemmy to hard.

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if you’re keen to farm data.

I have enough projects already lol.

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PieFed MAUs increased by 400% though - when lemm.ee went down a LOT of people abandoned Lemmy in favor of PieFed.

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I was worried at first that Lemmy would be basically dead compared to Reddit. But holy hell, its active enough and its qualitatively better than Reddit could ever be. I never realized how shit it was until I actually decided to leave permanently.

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PieFed MAUs increased by 400%.

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I finally switched to PieFed now that Voyager has more or less stable support for it. Fuck the Lemmy tankie devs

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I don't even know what is fundamentally different between Lemmy and Piefed aside from Piefed's web interface. AFAIK, they're basically the same thing but Lemmy is primarily developed by a harmful douche. 🫤

Is there any reason beside that to choose one or the other?

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This ain't a sprint. This is a marathon

I don't know if Lemmy is the future but ActivityPub social media is.

It is only matter of time.

I no longer feed my shit post on corpo socials. This is an aspect of the class war. Don't feed your enemy.

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Yep on reddit I'd just end up scrolling for ages. Here I actually have conversations with people, you get to know people which I really like.

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It took me a while to get my head round, but I'm in my 40s and shit with tech

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Any ideas what difference that make sto the total activity stats throughout the fediverse?

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Nice one for posting so much! I'm a prolific poster as well but you've got me beat. It's a lot of work but I love to see people happily chatting here. I've no clue if it's quieter atm overall, but don't know that lemmy will fail. There's enough of us atm, and not many alternatives.

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Can confirm, used to have an account on lemm.ee, switched to PieFed just before lemm.ee went down.

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Lemm.ee still only recently shut down. Their users made new accounts which would have looked like a bump and then decease when lemm.ee accounts were no longer accessible.

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If you're using the browser, the Piefed main page is a lot more data efficient, if you care about that sort of thing.

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PieFed, like Mbin, was written from the ground up, and in a totally different language than Lemmy.

But it interoperates with Lemmy, so yeah it's very similar. Except the LARGE list of features that PieFed has that Lemmy lacks, and a handful of features that Lemmy still does better on.

Moreover, Lemmy will likely not ever catch up to PieFed. One reason being that certain features are incompatible with the authoritarian mindset - e.g. when a moderator removes your content, why should you as the poster be notified of that fact?

But also, PieFed is written in Python that is a heck of a lot easier to code in than Rust, so the fact that PieFed not only caught up to Lemmy but has already surpassed it in SO MANY ways is a strong indicator of its future success.

But aside from the tankies building in tankie philosophy right into the core of the Lemmy software, it depends on whether someone wants those additional features or not. Like polls, flairs (both user and post), categories of communities, which btw are user customizable and shareable, combining all comments across all cross-posts (helping to reverse the fragmentation effect inherent in federated platforms), and so much more.

I bet that if you tried out PieFed for a day, you'd fall in love with it. You can also do entirely different workflows with it, like trigger notifications to be sent to you that really helps you to stay on top of posts from communities that are very low-volume (and so have trouble making it into your Subscribed feed, like poetry rather than politics or worshipping Arch Linux), but those are likely to take more than a day to figure out - there's definitely a learning curve. Also note that ymmv with regard to the different apps not (yet!) fully utilizing all the features offered by the PieFed back-end.

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Previous thread on the same topic 4 days ago: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/238765

Also, OP, as a general request, could you please consider posting to

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[email protected] rather than whatever other privacy community you are using

Those two communities have several active members posting, and are trying to gather enough activity to become sustainable. [email protected] was barely active before you started posting it to it, and now provides people with https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload when they want to post about movies.

Feel also free to join [email protected] where we discuss growing communities

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Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?