Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?
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From what I've seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I'm just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I'm mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I've interacted with their comments before. Means I'm not frequently seeing new people.
People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of "far left", and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.
It's definitely worse. I have only stayed because it isn't corporate bullshit. It's still shit though.
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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Currently trending down. And it's all your fault for taking a break.
Replying to this to make the line go up
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It's definitely worse. I have only stayed because it isn't corporate bullshit. It's still shit though.
Yeah I'm only still here because it's something that still can have some decent conversations sometimes, and hey I'm always down for a good debate/argument with people of differing opinions. It's definitely not going to grow to any great heights without massive changes across the board though.
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Piefeds users don't tend to be tankies or campists, and Piefed.social itself is defederated from Hexbear and Lemmygrad.
you missed my whole point.
lemmy instances cultivate their own user base. piefed is no different. so not as they said, "the same user base".
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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Currently trending down. And it's all your fault for taking a break.
Probably will bump back up in September
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Reddit is written in Python. It was originally written is Common Lisp, but they rewrote it in Python since it is easier to find developers.
Damn! How inefficient 🤪 but that explains a lot
Python dev tend to vibe code while C (and other similar programming language) devs tend to plan more prior coding.
As a decision maker, I would let my devs only use python for proof of concepts or for build scripts..
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In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.
My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.
Now I'm taking a break. I won't post anything or I'll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content
?)But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.
However... I'm just curious.
Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?
Edit: I will still post stuff. I'll just post a lot less!
Its been at a pretty consistent 50k which means we retained 25% of the users from our peak. Its 37.5k at the moment with 1.8k on piefed. There is another 18k users once NodeBB federations integrates.
Its a decent little community, enough to be self sufficient and enough for new users to feel like they arent joining a ghost town.
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Yep and its pretty easy to read when looking at the source code.
C is easy as well.. For me, even more easy than python, as I read like 100x more C++ rather than python..
I don’t even bother to write python anymore
I let it generate by AI nowadays -
Probably will bump back up in September
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From what I've seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I'm just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I'm mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I've interacted with their comments before. Means I'm not frequently seeing new people.
People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of "far left", and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.
How do you enable that Voyager thing?
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In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.
My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.
Now I'm taking a break. I won't post anything or I'll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content
?)But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.
However... I'm just curious.
Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?
Edit: I will still post stuff. I'll just post a lot less!
I salute you. And please take care of yourself first.
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How do you enable that Voyager thing?
Under settings go to "User Tags" and turn on "Track Votes"
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No, the MAU (which is what I assume you meant) seems to be going down very slowly. Though it probably will start going up once again someday. Possibly when the new digg is released to the public or when Reddit pulls another shit that not even the current Redditors will be able to tolerate.
I personally don't have a problem with the current state. I like it here. I recognize lots of people every day comment and post. It feels cozy.
I’d say “surely reddit can’t get worse” but we have the greedy fuck spaz at the helm. So yeah. It CAN get worse
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we peaked mid 2023, i have posted 2.8k comments in 2.5 years, so my work complements yours
I’ve posted like 1.2k comments in a matter of 6 months. My account is 2 years old, but I went back to Reddit shortly after. So I was silent for a
Year or two -
New account, 2 comments, both in this thread defending the tankies over at ml...
they love to larp and not use their ml accounts in the hope that ml avoids being defederated
long overdue
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you missed my whole point.
lemmy instances cultivate their own user base. piefed is no different. so not as they said, "the same user base".
Well currently Piefed is growing prominently from Lemmy users. Most of the audience are 'ex-Lemmy' users.
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That email comparison annoys the fuck out of me. How is any of this like email?
Wow, calm down. It was just a question. The core difference between Reddit and lemmy is in my mind like the core difference between something like whatsapp and email.
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Damn! How inefficient 🤪 but that explains a lot
Python dev tend to vibe code while C (and other similar programming language) devs tend to plan more prior coding.
As a decision maker, I would let my devs only use python for proof of concepts or for build scripts..
Damn! How inefficient 🤪 but that explains a lot
Although I'm not a big fan of python, or dynamically typed languages in general, I think its DX is a lot better than stuff like C. Unless you really enjoy leaking 40GB of ram per second.
Python dev tend to vibe code
What? Maybe the percentage of vibe coders among python users is higher, but that's irrelevant. Just hire the real developers...
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Under settings go to "User Tags" and turn on "Track Votes"
Hmm, I already had that enabled. I see it now on your comments, but not on other people's posts even if I upvote them and for people like The_Picard_Maneuver that I know I've upvoted in the past. I guess it's just buggy.
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Well currently Piefed is growing prominently from Lemmy users. Most of the audience are 'ex-Lemmy' users.
where else would they come from?
is piefed advertising on Reddit? maybe Facebook?
sarcasm btw, just thought I'd blatantly point it out because it seems you might need the help.
I couldn't care less where users are coming from. Piefed users give me the ick because they try so damn hard to get users to join piefed. they are also some of the most blindly optimistic users I have ever interacted with. they remind me of "happy Christians". you know the type; happy wife, 2.5 kids, live in a HOA white neighborhood, live-laugh-pray. it feels like a young cult right now and gives me a feeling that something just isn't right.
I'll stick with lemmy, thanks. I'll take a flawed platform over one that insists it's better.
