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Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • D [email protected]

    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!

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    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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    • M [email protected]

      Yep and its pretty easy to read when looking at the source code.

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      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

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      • heythisisnttheymca@lemmy.worldH [email protected]

        Probably will bump back up in September

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        • F [email protected]

          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.

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          How do you enable that Voyager thing?

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          • D [email protected]

            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!

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            I salute you. And please take care of yourself first.

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              How do you enable that Voyager thing?

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              Under settings go to "User Tags" and turn on "Track Votes"

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              • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devA [email protected]

                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.

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                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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                • E [email protected]

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

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                  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

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                  • C [email protected]

                    New account, 2 comments, both in this thread defending the tankies over at ml...

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                    they love to larp and not use their ml accounts in the hope that ml avoids being defederated

                    long overdue

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                    • G [email protected]

                      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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                      Well currently Piefed is growing prominently from Lemmy users. Most of the audience are 'ex-Lemmy' users.

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                      • lumidaub@feddit.orgL [email protected]

                        That email comparison annoys the fuck out of me. How is any of this like email?

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                        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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                        • P [email protected]

                          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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                          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"

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                            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.

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                              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.

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                              • openstars@discuss.onlineO [email protected]

                                Many of us stopped actually "engaging" on Reddit long before we finally left it - the amount of trolls just waiting to pounce on anything at all that was said just got too damn high!

                                There are (so MANY!) trolls here too, but you can block them all and then breathe an enormous sigh of relief and finally enjoy the rest - I am saying that here that is at least possible, whereas on Reddit it just simply was not.

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                                I haven't encountered a troll yet and the encountered bots so far are useful repost bots. Reddit is just filled with obnoxious people that I couldn't stand, moderators with small dick energy that moderate to whatever rules they prefer (like permanent bans for using very common non-targeted slurs) and just annoying trolls on subs like WorldNews and Canada that get away with racist shit all the time.

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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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                                  I just switched and there is definitely a noticeable difference in that department. It runs so smooth compared to my lemmy experience.

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                                  • blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comB [email protected]

                                    note that it tests deployment of all the newest features, so it can break more readily than a more stable instance

                                    That's https://crust.piefed.social/ now

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                                    Oh right, I did forget, thanks!:-)

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                                      I read this on Sh.itJust.Works and am now commenting from piefed.social.

                                      I haven't dug in much but really like it.

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                                      Welcome! You are going to absolutely love PieFed:-D.

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                                        that's a hard sell. gonna take a pass. thanks though.

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                                        It's fine for you not to like it, it's just software and there's room to use different ones on the shared Threadiverse:-).

                                        I do maintain that bringing up PieFed seemed very relevant to this discussion though. The OP had:

                                        Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?

                                        And then from there we went into MAUs, although the link offered only showed Lemmy stats so I shared a different link with PieFed stats, especially relevant due to the incident with lemm.ee and how many of its users moved over to PieFed.

                                        But if you've tried it and don't care for it, that's fine, we just wanted to offer the knowledge that it exists and that a lot of people really do seem to enjoy it.

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                                        • M [email protected]

                                          I haven't encountered a troll yet and the encountered bots so far are useful repost bots. Reddit is just filled with obnoxious people that I couldn't stand, moderators with small dick energy that moderate to whatever rules they prefer (like permanent bans for using very common non-targeted slurs) and just annoying trolls on subs like WorldNews and Canada that get away with racist shit all the time.

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                                          Then you must be avoiding politics and the major news communities here - which is good advice for anyone to follow - in which case the rest of the Threadiverse is outright kind. Reddit used to have such people but they stopped talking years ago - I know I did.

                                          One thing to note about Reddit mods: the Rexodus broke the power of anyone who resisted, so the tiny dick energy thing is by design as in anyone there nowadays is a collaborator to its authoritarian regime, who of course is a very different type of personality (a conciliatory style: think "cop", where power flows downhill) than what used to be the case years ago. I am speaking though of small niche subs - the largest ones had already enshittified by then, for different reasons. Power corrupts.

                                          But the Threadiverse is new, and so the early adoptor mindset reigns supreme. There are definitely authoritarians though - some of the more major ones you cannot see since Lemmy.world has defederated from them, thereby protecting you from that. Lemmy.ml still exists though, and if you ever say anything slightly negative about Russia, China, or North Korea (or in some cases simply not supportive enough of them?), then you can be banned from every community across the entire instance including ones you've never commented in before. So such things do exist here... but yeah there are also kind people here too, and that's awesome! (Whereas on Reddit I simply gave up all hope whatsoever for anything positive, buried amidst all the mountains of trash)

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