How big is lemmy nowadays
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MAUs are users that post or comment right? Or does voting also make you a MAU?
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Can you ELI5 for me why Instances are more important than communities?
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Doesn't matter as much for lemm.ee as it's more of a utility than an instance, but I see instances more like traditional "subreddits" and comms within them as "hashtags" and categories. Hexbear's "games" comm is very different from Lemmy.mls, as an example.
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Unsure on the specifics of how MAU is decided.
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Oh wow, if thats the case then I have overestimated the numbers by alot. Seems like we're still in the nichest of the niche
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It's much bigger than it used to be, and is relatively stable now.
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you can see all the numbers in sites like https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
its definitelly better than first time I stumble upon lemmy -
You can be +1.
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Mastodon is the biggest fediverse platform and that has just short of 900k MAU (monthly active users) with around 8M registered users.
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So, more like servers on discord?
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Yep! Great example.
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As far as I know, from when this was discussed after the first Reddit exodus, only commenting and posting makes you an active user. So the number is somewhat deceivingly small, as the vast majority on platforms like this are lurkers who maybe post/comment every once in a while at most.
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Ah, gotcha.
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The worse two things to happen to lemmy when the reddit api migration happened is people created clones of their subreddits multiple times on different instances but when it didn't take off immediately they just abandoned it. The second was bot posting no one is going to engage when op is not real and thus you have zombie communities with zero comments. So it looks like a ghost town instead of a letting grow organically.
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I know I engage way more on lemmy than I ever did on reddit. I think I posted more on here in the first year then I did the whole 11 years on reddit. Lemmy reminds me more of the old forum days than reddit or Digg. I wish lemmy would have followed the forum model more with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme like how the star trek instance does it vs everyone trying to be an mini reddit. Also I know it's ironic me saying that with my account being from .world
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If I could change one thing about lemmy. I kind of wish communities worked like channels in IRC. When servers are federated if I go to #games on my server and you go to #games on your server. It does it's best to show the same content. So the instance is real but the community is vitrual abstracted by the protocol.
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It’s small enough I recognize users all the time, which is kind of nutty, and I’m not even a heavy user I think.
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Keep in mind that these are active users, many networks with huge numbers have registered accounts, but most have no activity.
In any case, be the change you want to see, help the network grow by providing content and activity, you will always be welcomed.
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Yep, I agree, that's why I generally enioy Hexbear more than other instances. Having a theme and a specialty helps flavor your experience in unique ways.
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People say this, but I've been on Lemmy and Mastodon for about 1.5 years and Lemmy feels a lot more engaging than Masto. My posts there get one or two likes and boosts, while posts and comments here regularly get dozens if not hundreds of upvotes. I think Blue Sky is eating their lunch right now.
