The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.
We certainly aren’t hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)
I was on reddit for sixteen years, and on digg and a little slashdot for several years before that. I spend a lot of time in places like these. I’m not even on a super popular instance, and there’s plenty of content here.
I grew up when the Internet was essentially a bunch of forum communities and 10k people was a lot of people. Something Awful felt massive with 300k registered users.
You don’t need 150,000,000 people on a subreddit to have a good community.
Communities are far better when you can recognize the names of people and remember then from previous interactions. On Reddit, you’ll probably never talk to the same person twice.
You can’t have a community full of bots if there are only a few hundred people who all know each other.
Seriously though, I’ll scroll for hours at a time. Some of my favorite online communities ever are here on lemmy. What we’re building here is awesome.
It’s not uncanny to the point of having a full community for every game, hobby, and random concept that’s ever crossed someones mind. But honestly after seeing the internet evolve over the years I’m kind of over the idea of trying to cram everything into one giant website. Fedi is particularly awesome for that of course, moreso than ever now with loops and pixelfed doing so well
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
whee!!! let the rollercoaster climb for the reddit decline!
Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on [email protected] and did a highlight by highlight match thread on [email protected] once. That last one was painful af.
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
Noice. Tbh I didn’t post too much on /r/Android as I liked being a mod on it as I’m a huge Android nerd; I think people would have called mod abuse or something if they only saw my posts in the feed lol. People liked to be overtly critical of the modding anyway on that subreddit.
Oh I didn’t realize you modded r/android. Ping me if you’d like to be a moderator of [email protected]
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I’m part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I’m part of the crowd.
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post.
“Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits or show some backbone. Im sorry for even considering a 12 hour protest, Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter. I don’t miss my old phone app for reddit at all…”
wipes away a single suppressed tear for the death of boost/sync/whatever and their own lost dignity when spez isn’t looking
Seriously good on you for being a trendsetter with a basic shred of self respect who knows when to tap out of a bad/abusive situation, Echofox. I wonder just how much more the water needs to be boiled before even the joke characature above gets tired of reddits BS. Maybe never.
Hey thanks, I do lean a little hard on the self deprecating humor sometimes.
Reddit has been getting worse for years, and the comments there are so adversarial and insincere.
Users definitely can get sick of bad sites, what happened with X shows that. Their user base is a small fraction of what it was a few years ago.
I’m definitely liking it here though!
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
I don’t know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.
But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn’t make things a thousand times better - that’s for sure.
(That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down… because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)
Well there’s still more niche topics that are hard to sustain a community for on Lemmy due to the lack of population. I’d like to see that grow. Hopefully in time.
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only…
You make I upload? Deal?
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Good :) welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech.
Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!
That’s true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn’t post or comment.
But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we’ve seen some really nice organic growth, although it’s not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it’s really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
Link to source?
I am the source.
Thank you for providing this informative graph! I will be saving it for future use.
That’s great to see we’re spiking a bit recently just not as much as the days of the Reddit api shutdown situation.
You could use this graph to investigate the incidents that have occurred with the user spikes.
without a link to the source, we have no idea if this is information or misinformation
Bro. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Misinformation is not the same thing as disinformation.
You’re welcome.
