Lemmy Just Broke the 54k MAU Record Set During the 2023 API Exodus!

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Wait, aren't community subscriptions synced with your account?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Reddit is inflating its numbers by a wide margin.

A sub like https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/ has 150k subscribers, but the activity definitely doesn't reflect that compared to [email protected] and the 9k weekly active users

[balssh@lemm.ee]

I thought so, but at least in Voyagger iOS after I logged in I had no subscriptions. I didn't bother to double check for now as I'm quite happy with phtn.

LE: reinstalled voyager and now I have my subscriptions linked with my account. Looks dope too.

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

It's mostly because people keep recommending LW instead of other instances.

[tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden]

I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.

[mudman@fedia.io]

Again, doesn't matter. There's data on logged in users and it's also many orders of magnitude larger than Fedi.

By most independent metrics Reddit has more visits than Netflix. Than Pornhub, while we're at it. It's one of the top ten most visited sites on the Internet, and by most accounts it's actually grown since the "exodus".

I don't use it and I do like it here, but the idea that Lemmy is somehow encroaching on it is absurd. And self-defeating, too. Lemmy and its satellites are very worthwhile for what they are... but just a gnat in the wind as a Reddit alternative. Better to measure them on their own merits.

[Guest]

Boost for Lemmy on Android.

[mrkawfee@lemmy.world]

I flipping love Lemmy.

[Guest]

I didn’t really understand this on the way in. Is there an explanation somewhere. I found a mobile browser app and it sort of stuck me on one without me being able to select.

I think I’m with lemme ee?

[jaygray91@lemmy.zip]

Thunder. I used to use Sync for reddit before, and used it a bit for Lemmy. But I like thunder a bit more.

I also use Interstellar for mbin.

[balssh@lemm.ee]

Interesting. Is mbin the same as kbin or?

[muaddib@sopuli.xyz]

Anyone can put Lemmy on their website

All the Lemmy websites talk to each other

You went to the website lemm.ee, so you're a lemm.ee user

It's good for the network if people don't all use the same website

[Guest]

Got it. Is there a way for me to transfer or do you just register into a new account once I figure out the best server for me?

[boreengreen@lemm.ee]

Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps to not be shit. looking at reddit.

[muaddib@sopuli.xyz]

You have to make a new account in order to move instances. But I think you can export your subscriptions.

[Guest]

Awesome thanks! I will scan around for a couple weeks and then register into a new account. Being a reddifugee with the recent censorship and a big “Center for humane tech” nerd am excited to be shifting in a better direction - so will for sure be invested in server and site health.

[1984@lemmy.today]

Meh. These stats are so flawed. Its like 5 servers having most of the users.

Its like pretending we have this amazing distributed network when its actually extreamly centralized.

But im happy Lemmy is growing, its good.

[Guest]

And then in 5-10 years the users will destroy it like everything else on the Internet...

Seriously, though, make me wrong - because this kind of model is so new to me, I don't know, is there anything different about this that will resist it going the way of things that were once good and eventually weren't, like Craigslist and Reddit?

Obviously a lot of Reddit sucks due to how it's run, but let's not overlook that part of its downfall, like with Craigslist, is the users as it grew having no respect for the model. I've been on my way out since well before the API exodus (and yet I was addicted and too lazy until now, that's on me). People posting whatever they want wherever they want and having very little understanding of nuance in language ("oddly satisfying" doesn't just mean "I like this"), misusing downvoting (I know I'm yelling at clouds, but that was where Reddit was doomed from the start to become an echo chamber, and I didn't know if Lemmy is different in that respect - do votes determine visibility here?), moderators becoming more power hungry, and I'm sorry if this is mean, but the userbase trending younger steering content much more to "mah crush, aitah?," fake stories for "points," and I feel the general populace there being more gullible. Not to mention the same comments being made over and over, and I'm not talking about bots, I'm talking about constant "this is the way" and "username checks out."

I've seen so many actual discussions here already that are full of real passion and good points even when they're heated, some lovely user created and has posted around a really through socialist reading list. I've only seen "this is the way" once. Reddit is lazy one-word answers and downvotes. How do we encourage this and discourage that?

Anyway, I rant. This place is great now and will only get better as it grows, but I hope this model will in some way resist that downfall. But I've come to accept that nothing on the Internet is permanent. And also that people are gonna people and if I don't like that, it's on me to leave.

[jaygray91@lemmy.zip]

From what I understand, it's a fork of kbin. when kbin dev went silent and didn't trust anybody else to help them, a few other devs forked it.

[Guest]

I'm using my web browser (on mobile)! I know I'm not the only one, but that's usually pretty unpopular. I've never been big on social media, but I've never used an app for any of them I have used in the past, including Reddit. Website with ad blockers for me, screw those guys. Here, though, I might give in eventually and try an app...