I discovered lemmy back when reddit started to charge for their API. However upon taking a look at it, it seemed that apart from like 8 communities,there was not much going on elsewhere. Things seem to have changed since then, quite a lot of active communities these days. So how many users do yall reckon lemmy has now? Is it close to 5M? or perhaps even higher?
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🫲🏻====😃====🫱🏻 about this big.
🍌 for scale.
that’s about 30 toothpaste length
Can I have that in rods and furlongs?
I’ve had to measure parcels in “chains and rods” when updating archaic plat books! That’s when I decided GIS may not be for me.
Still got the degree bc I was too far into the degree and couldn’t afford extra tuition.
Nowadays, I can read a map about as well as the average person!
And here I thought chains were only used for cricket and train tracks.
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You know you just called him a ball sack in Inuktitut, right?
The worse two things to happen to lemmy when the reddit api migration happened is people created clones of their subreddits multiple times on different instances but when it didn’t take off immediately they just abandoned it. The second was bot posting no one is going to engage when op is not real and thus you have zombie communities with zero comments. So it looks like a ghost town instead of a letting grow organically.
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But that’s my point it wasn’t created organically one community at a time but a flood of clones with the same names at subreddits vs having there own identity. So instead of one community on one instance known for one topic you have twenty that are watered down and no one knows where to coalesce.
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You are also asuuming reddit was the default for a person coming to lemmy and that still doesn’t explain the multiple communities created as clones becase the familiarity gets flipped on its head becase the person coming from reddit that would appeal to goes. It looks like reddit has the same name as my favorite subreddit. Why doesn’t it work just like reddit? Then they say screw this I’m going back to reddit and thus you haven’t dead communities hanging off of lemmy like a tumor. Hell the /c/name is not even shown in clients when you search it’s the display name. So that makes it even more confusing.
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not disagreeing with your overall premise, but do clearly labeled bot news aggregator communities need much interaction right now?
I read many of the articles on bot feeds and will sometimes comment on ones that I think should get a few more eyeballs. others do the same and I appreciate their prodding as well. for my usecase lemmy in its current state has been absolutely wonderful, and I am enjoying watching it evolve.
Yeah I’m glad it works for you but at that point you are using lemmy like a RSS feed reader and at that point just use an RSS feed reader. But my point was trying to explain the lack of engagement that drives more content. Sometimes the post is secondary to comments in some cases.
It’s small enough I recognize users all the time, which is kind of nutty, and I’m not even a heavy user I think.
I like that
Me too. On Voyager you can add personal tags for people. It also displays how often you’re upvoting or downvoting each user account. Very helpful for keeping track of who’s who!
Now I’m imagining someone has me tagged as “data slut” from a thread last week about our jobs
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Most of the time, I recognize people fondly, too!
You’re such a light user that when I try to look at your post history, my client says you don’t exist!
That’s by design! I rotate alt accounts every now and then to keep my footprint light. :-)
you can see all the numbers in sites like https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy its definitelly better than first time I stumble upon lemmy
I remember in the early days people saying that Lemmy wasn’t succeeding. Very frustrating to hear because it was like the very early days. And look at it now!
There’s literally dozens of us
It’s the same 12 of us just commenting on each other’s posts lol
I’m here too - better make it a bakers dozen 😎
If by dozens you mean 50,000?
https://lemmyverse.net/ in there you can search instances and communities, and If you Have an account on a y lemmy servwe you can use Its search function or if You use clients as Jerboa you can search communities with Its search function. I follow a lot of communities on Lemmy most of them are not as actives as their peers on Reddit but there are
I guess the question is “is bigger better for an internet community?” Like, old forums were a lot more interesting then today’s giants (Reddit etc), even if not much was posted from day to day
