this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
3040 points (99.0% liked)

Fediverse

28216 readers
242 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SageWaterDragon@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have high hopes for Lemmy, but I don't think that having a lot of users is going to be a super positive thing in the long term. It'd be great if it could feel like younger Reddit for longer than younger Reddit did, you know? Stay at least a little under the radar.

[–] javasux@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just looking forward to the meme subreddits becoming less outdated. Feels like 2017 in here

[–] collin93@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I actually appreciate the nostalgia

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's a number you're comfortable with?

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was expecting someone to say either the numbers 42 or 69.

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, THIS! IS! SPARTA!

[–] casio77@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's inevitable with things on the internet. If Lemmy is successful, it will become like reddit too.

[–] FightMilk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhat but reddit drew a lot of people in with celebrities. The people attracted to celebrities and image heavy content will be more drawn to Threads instead of Lemmy. At least imho

[–] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You find Tildes image heavy compared to Lemmy? I have the opposite experience. Maybe I'm subscribed to some image heavy communities here?

[–] FightMilk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure why I said it that way, all I really meant was Instagram users

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Yes and no....I am on lemmy.nz and browsing by local / subscribed eliminates all of the memes and bullshit.

I do browse by all every now and then...but it is not my preferred setting.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I think because of federation, even if lemmy blows up, smaller instances and communities will be able to exist still. Over on Mastodon, the big instances have grown up quite a bit, but there is also many thriving smaller communities that either aren't federated with the big instances, or federated very selectively to curate the community they want.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit was and is impossibly easy to use. You visit the site and start scrolling. If and when you decide you want to participate you create and account and start doing so.

The barrier to entry on Lemmy is much higher. This will keep out many of the types of low effort users that would eventually turn this into reddit.

Maybe someday the fediverse will be as obvious to everyone as any other part of the internet but it's definitely not right now and it will be awhile before it is.

[–] SageWaterDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It definitely took me a bit to wrap my head around the fediverse, but the presence of a "main" site (in this case, Lemmy.world, or in Mastodon's Mastodon.social) has made it pretty easy for me. I hate that crypto nerds took "web3.0" because I think, in most ways, the true inter-operability of social networks is the next "web2.0"-tier step that the internet can take.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I very much agree.