How big is lemmy nowadays
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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.
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Microblogging is about individuals while lemmy is about topics.
With the former, unless you involve algorithmic recommendations or recommendation lists like bluesky, its going to be a lot of work for users to get a nice feed from just following individual people.
With the latter, the things i mentioned are basically built into the system so its easier to get a lively experience even with much fewer users.
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When you are almost the only one posting for more thsn 6 months, it make sens that s lot of community owners stop posting
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Most of the time, I recognize people fondly, too!
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But that's my point it wasn't created organically one community at a time but a flood of clones with the same names at subreddits vs having there own identity. So instead of one community on one instance known for one topic you have twenty that are watered down and no one knows where to coalesce.
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I feel like doing that automatically would just encourage instances to defederate if their larger communities didn't like the cut of another instance's jib. The culture clash would be harder to tolerate if content were mixed by default like that.
Maybe an easier way for end users to do it themselves? Like making a feed of multiple communities under one topic.
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with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme
There are a few servers like this and people are aware of the centralization dangers of .world. Its hard work to keep a system like this from turning to shit.
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But that’s my point it wasn’t created organically one community at a time but a flood of clones with the same names at subreddits vs having there own identity
I would argue that people like familiarity like linux distros that looks familiar to windows has grown in popularity. Therefore using similar names to the one on reddit makes complete since to me and I don't see it would affect the growth. As for have different content, since lemmy is less mainstream you will see less popular topics. Many communities has a good balance between mainstream topic and less popular content yet fail to make people participating
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My experience goes against this position.
Between quite a few really active users and the ability to follow hashtags I have had a very active timeline almost since day 1 in Mastodon.
To put it in comparison, I find it hard to keep up with the Masto timeline while my 6-hour best sorting starts quickly showing a ton of doubles (wouldn't it be great if we could somehow make them go away? )
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Yeah imagine what lemmy would look like if reddit or Digg were not a thing and it from forums directly to lemmy. The network would be so even and the the instance would tell you kind of what communities are there just by the name.
