Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?
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At a rough glance, it looks like PieFed's active users went up by roughly the same number as Lemmy's went down!
Although that's just the last couple of months - on top of that, the "Threadiverse" (including Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, nodeBB, and flarum, though the wider "Fediverse" also includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other stuff that isn't based on community forums like we do here; note from here on I'll focus exclusively on Lemmy) activity has been going down for quite awhile now, basically since the Rexodus.
According to people talking on r/Redditalternatives, Lemmy just isn't interesting enough. Before Blaze's (and others) heroic efforts to counteract it, previously the other top reason was that it was too confusing to have to pick an instance first before signing up (which is a legitimate thing for Mastodon even if not so much for Lemmy).
I get it: not everyone uses Arch Linux and hates Windows hard enough for this audience. Purity beatings will continue until morale improves.
Also Lemmy can be so incredibly toxic - sharing any kind of nuance will almost certainly be lost in the flood of people piling on not even for what someone says but if it sounds vaguely like something else that is popular to hate on. Argumentative people are just looking for excuses to argue, period. You personally have helped with that a ton, thank you so much for caring and sharing positivity vibes
️!! You are helping people not want to leave and go back to Reddit (which sounds odd I know, but remember that the tiny niche subs there really are different than the larger ones, and people can be much kinder in them than the more popular subs there, or the more popular communities here).You personally have helped with that a ton, thank you so much for caring and sharing positivity vibes
️!! You are helping people not want to leave and go back to Reddit (which sounds odd I know, but remember that the tiny niche subs there really are different than the larger ones, and people can be much kinder in them than the more popular subs there, or the more popular communities here).Sharing this feeling as well, thank you so much @[email protected] for all your posts and comments on the platform!
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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.
“Everything I don’t like is tankie” freaks just love shoehorning “tankies” into everything it’s so funny
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I would convert my instance to piefed if there was a migration script, iirc they're working on it, so I'm looking towards that.
I wouldn't hold my breath, I'm on the Zulip (https://chat.piefed.social/ ) and Matrix chats and the migration script isn't really worked on by anyone.
Instances like quokk.au just went nuclear and recreated their instances with Piefed when keeping the domain name.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ went the subdomain route.
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Ok I’ll bite. What are some good piefed instances to consider?
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Why not use [email protected] ?
Huh. Well mine looks to have totally different kinds of links and articles, so maybe they compliment each other.
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What do you like about these?
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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Currently trending down. And it's all your fault for taking a break.
piefed is its own category there, but kbin/mbin might be included in "lemmy" - I didn't dive deeper.
piefed is growing recently but it's not in the millions
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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!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I’ve gained some weight since joining. Does that count?
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PieFed is currently at ~1.7k MAU, last month it was 1.6k. I suppose the 400% increase is over and that was just some people from lemm.ee, any significant future increase will most likely come from people switching instead of new users. Lemmy dropped from 54k MAU in April down to 41k.
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I wouldn't hold my breath, I'm on the Zulip (https://chat.piefed.social/ ) and Matrix chats and the migration script isn't really worked on by anyone.
Instances like quokk.au just went nuclear and recreated their instances with Piefed when keeping the domain name.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ went the subdomain route.
Instances like quokk.au just went nuclear and recreated their instances with Piefed when keeping the domain name.
Does that even work? Wouldn't that kinda break federation?
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At a rough glance, it looks like PieFed's active users went up by roughly the same number as Lemmy's went down!
Although that's just the last couple of months - on top of that, the "Threadiverse" (including Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, nodeBB, and flarum, though the wider "Fediverse" also includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other stuff that isn't based on community forums like we do here; note from here on I'll focus exclusively on Lemmy) activity has been going down for quite awhile now, basically since the Rexodus.
According to people talking on r/Redditalternatives, Lemmy just isn't interesting enough. Before Blaze's (and others) heroic efforts to counteract it, previously the other top reason was that it was too confusing to have to pick an instance first before signing up (which is a legitimate thing for Mastodon even if not so much for Lemmy).
I get it: not everyone uses Arch Linux and hates Windows hard enough for this audience. Purity beatings will continue until morale improves.
Also Lemmy can be so incredibly toxic - sharing any kind of nuance will almost certainly be lost in the flood of people piling on not even for what someone says but if it sounds vaguely like something else that is popular to hate on. Argumentative people are just looking for excuses to argue, period. You personally have helped with that a ton, thank you so much for caring and sharing positivity vibes
️!! You are helping people not want to leave and go back to Reddit (which sounds odd I know, but remember that the tiny niche subs there really are different than the larger ones, and people can be much kinder in them than the more popular subs there, or the more popular communities here).Thanks so much for taking the time to write that out! It is a lot of work, but I love seeing people hanging out happily chatting in a nice thread.
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You personally have helped with that a ton, thank you so much for caring and sharing positivity vibes
️!! You are helping people not want to leave and go back to Reddit (which sounds odd I know, but remember that the tiny niche subs there really are different than the larger ones, and people can be much kinder in them than the more popular subs there, or the more popular communities here).Sharing this feeling as well, thank you so much @[email protected] for all your posts and comments on the platform!
Right back at you bro!
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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
Everything I personally dislike is tankie! You dorks sound like those conservative idiots who call everything leftist Marxist communist
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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!
wrote last edited by [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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we peaked mid 2023, i have posted 2.8k comments in 2.5 years, so my work complements yours
I don't remember my stats from my lemm.ee (rip) account but I'd imagine it was nearing the thousands
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Everything I personally dislike is tankie! You dorks sound like those conservative idiots who call everything leftist Marxist communist
They are transphobic, tankie assholes though. Here's a good list of the .ml shit: https://lemmy.world/comment/18997412
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Everything I personally dislike is tankie! You dorks sound like those conservative idiots who call everything leftist Marxist communist
New account, 2 comments, both in this thread defending the tankies over at ml...
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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Currently trending down. And it's all your fault for taking a break.
Yeah, well, fuck those guys.
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Thanks so much for taking the time to write that out! It is a lot of work, but I love seeing people hanging out happily chatting in a nice thread.
I love it too, but it is something that does not happen "naturally". A lot of people feel intimidated by e.g. someone spinning up a bot that will send 20-100 identical messages at someone (yes that's a real story that I was reading about earlier today), and while that one is on the extreme side, more mundane methods of trolling work almost as well for a fraction of the effort.
So thank you for your efforts to resist the trend and create a space where people can actually enjoy things:-).
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PieFed is currently at ~1.7k MAU, last month it was 1.6k. I suppose the 400% increase is over and that was just some people from lemm.ee, any significant future increase will most likely come from people switching instead of new users. Lemmy dropped from 54k MAU in April down to 41k.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes the lemm.ee switch-over crowd is over so it will be interesting to see the more natural growth after that.
e.g. from January to March PieFed (edit: 's Monthly Active Users) more than doubled in size long before lemm.ee's troubles were widely announced.
Typically as people hear about the new features and are astonished by how PieFed offers exactly what people have been outright begging to see brought to Lemmy (heck, in some cases even Reddit) but they simply won't do it. In fairness, perhaps they cannot, given their current pace of development, but also their prioritization may differ from those of the end-users (I have noticed that particularly things that involve federation between instances - e.g. modlog actions - typically receive much lower prioritization than things that will work inside a singular instance, perhaps reflecting the bias that the main Lemmy devs are also the admins of their own personal instance? for good or for ill, it is what is is: this is their platform, and if someone does not like it then they are free to go ahead and make their own from scratch, which both Kbin, before it was forked to Mbin, and now PieFed have done just that:-D).
