Eh. to some degree, enshittification is going to happen as more people come in, because more people = more shitty people. If we want to have the good niche communities that are IMO the only excellent thing about reddit, we'll have to put up with the fact that that also means a bunch of annoying people use the service.

At least Lemmy has far, far better tools for dealing with them.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

Our most precious features is you'll never have to. If a community turns to shit, they just get defederated. If you can't find a server that defederates them, you can host it yourself. Your groups will be smaller, and you'll lose something in the transition, but what you have is what you'll put up with.

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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 16 hours ago

People are finally done with reddit's shit! Thank God and welcome

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 33 points 23 hours ago

I flipping love Lemmy.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 51 points 1 day 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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[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 11 points 19 hours ago

Hmm. I wonder if the server i just launched was number 600 😁😁🔥😁

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes I remember the lemmy.world servers being DDOS'ed every couple of days and having to switch between 3 clients and the webinterface because all of the apps were missing some features. The alternative frontends like photon and tesseract have really improved and imo should be the new defaults.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago (3 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (13 children)

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

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 23 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I think the distribution is fine as long as we still have nodes with good capacity. Our real issue is everyone demanding to be on the same instance because they're scared of Federation.

What I'd REALLY like to see is a Federated Resource Locator service, kinda like nameservice for a federated user.

rumba@mastodon.social is 101254684, if I move to rumba@ingrowntownail.es, I want all my followers to do that lookup and still be following me. It's great to have my settings migrate with me, but it would be bangin' to have other people linked to me to still follow me.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I guess some people get off on go team go, but to me looking at market share is very corporate thinking. If lemmy is better than reddit (which I think it is) it will just naturally grow, which is great. Whet I'm cheering for is that developers of federated platforms are slowly taking social media away from the business world by doing it better for free - whether that turns out to be lemmy or some other software.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago (12 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 points 18 hours ago

Also never underestimate how many bots there are. And how many users have 10+ accounts. Seeing less evidence of that on Lemmy so far, though who knows honestly.

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[–] brot@feddit.org 39 points 1 day ago (2 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)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

If they're doing that, it means they're counting unique IPs, which is a ridiculous metric. Even lemmy would have easily 10x the MAU with it.

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day 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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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 !buyeuropean@feddit.uk and the 9k weekly active users

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's very exciting to see 48k MAU jump up to 55k in such a short time.

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Nice

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