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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 87 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 13 points 2 days ago

I don't think the subs failed to get off the ground because of federation, I think they did because they didn't have a dedicated person tirelessly filling them with posts and single-handedly carrying them. Because that's still where we are population wise. 50k+ MAUs is very nice, but not nearly enough for niche subs to be self-sustaining. Look at any small but active Lemmy sub right now and it's often a single person doing 90% of the posting. The only real way to get a new sub going is to be that person.

At least now we have stuff like Lemmy Federate and places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

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[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

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[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 123 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Worth noting is that what counts as an "active user" has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an "active user" was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.

[–] Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago

Huzzah, us lurkers now count towards the global stats!

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[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 62 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

[–] Lexxly@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I'm hating people

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 170 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit's desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 48 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The user growth we're seeomg could result in an overwhelming flood of users at anytime. Which is why people should consider supporting the lemmy devs and instance admins either financially or through contributions so that the lemmy software and infrastructure is ready to handle the growth.

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[–] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. Reddit is currently enshitifying in overdrive. They used to just do dumb features nobody wants, but now they are actively harming the base. The entire Luigi over-moderation this is just bad, and it feels like they want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now. and even if I do have to use it, the website often tends to not function properly these days, with the site constantly reloading, or voting functions to be broken. This is the year of lemmy.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I figured the planned paywalling of content was going to be the last straw for me, but then they gave me a fucking warning for upvoting. I made a Lemmy account the same day. Fuck them.

The paywall shit is still planned for this year afaik so be prepared to see more of Reddit heading this way.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Woo! That's awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

We are already successful, I'm seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

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[–] imetators@lemm.ee 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

[–] Otiz@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

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[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Can you say Luigi lol. Son, you're required to pledge allegiance to Luigi before every post you make here.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 3 days ago (13 children)

To anyone new wondering about phone apps for Lemmy, I use "Thunder" and it works great.

Also, feel free to say Luigi without getting banned.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] match@pawb.social 46 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm calling this one the exodus of st mangione

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

Please keep it, it can be useful to promote Lemmy a bit, like we do on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Glad that you like it here!

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 60 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You know it's bad for Reddit when people were even talking about going back to Digg

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[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

MAU? Mostly Anal Users? Martian Appalachian Upholstery? Mass Ass Underwear? Missing Alligator Utensils? Moldy Apple Uterus? Massive Arctic Uranus?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Monthly Average Users

as opposed to DAU (Daily) or WAU (Weekly)

For a live product, the number of average users / time is a pretty telling metric.

I wonder what the arc will look like this time.

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[–] kane@femboys.biz 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Makes me happy to see it, a future for a platform that is not locked by a single large player. Instead, I can have my own profile that I actually own and do not “lend”.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's so nice to see the servers are not crashing anymore this time around like how Lemmy.world did for me a few times back when I first joined in 2023 and I remember when the only app that was available on ios was just Wefwef before Memmy and Mlem came out of testflight. Today the apps are much more developed as we now have: 6 ios apps, 10 android apps, advanced search, moderator tools, user tags, in-app video playback, baby account indicator, advanced markdown editors, crossposting, watch support, expanded customizations, content filters, fediseer integration, side by side posts, alternate sources menu, song service integration, direct messages in app, gallery view, local sub count on communities, troll buster, user theme directory, open web post in app, gestures, media bias check, alt check and personal contribution stats.

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[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It is really awesome here. Like the good ol internet days.

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[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 40 points 3 days ago (8 children)

The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don't lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.

Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I don't think it's healthy enough but certainly better than the mastodon ecosystem

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

I flipping love Lemmy.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 34 points 3 days ago (13 children)

So by my math and some googling, that's about 0.00005% of Reddit's MAU.

On the one hand, cool, growth is growth.

On the other hand maybe it's... healthy to stop looking at Lemmy as an "alternative" to anything and start thinking about it as this small forum you like to use sometimes. Worked for me in the 90s, works for me now.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

You're off by some orders of magnitude.

It's 0.005%

But that's based off of the 1.1 billion number I saw. Somehow I very much doubt there's 1.1 billion people with accounts who login and browse at least once a month.

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago

Yeah, 1 bill with all the bots and alt accounts maybe.

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[–] brot@feddit.org 39 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Reddit is calculating its MAU differently. They seem to be counting even not-logged-in users coming from search engines - without that numbers like "1 billion monthly active users" really don't make any sense and even that is a crazy metric, if you think about it. There is no way that 1/8 of humanity is browsing on Reddit in a month. Lemmy seems to count only users who are doing something (submitting, commenting, upvoting)

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Totally, we don't want numbers for the sake of numbers. We need passionate people who are ready to ditch other mainstream ones for federated alternatives. Then only we can grow.

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[–] Ravenfreak@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago

Let's go! I hope to see these numbers continue to go up as the days go on.

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