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From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.
An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances.
We’re really building something here!
EDIT: Looking for a lemmy app? Here’s a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
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The barrier to entry is super high but hopefully websites and apps are developed to make it easier for people to join. (Sync for Lemmy)
Let’s also do out part and post/comment to add content to this website to make it appealing for new users.
Is it really super high? It might not be very intuitive, but there’s nothing truly complicated. Maybe I’m out of touch.
I’m in that graph, and wow my curves look good.
lemme add to the statistics a little :)
Is this the last Reddit hug of death?
I don’t believe so but I do think they will see continual decline after this. I’m envisioning more of a repeat of MySpace where everyone just loses interest.
Until they ban NSFW content
Killing old.reddit will be big too
And probably coming relatively soon as it’s much easier to scrape
I could imagine that being a bigger knife in the back than killing 3rd party apps.
From now on it’s going be a slow creep of the hand up the thigh.
I can’t wait for this place to blow up. Definitely missing some of my niche subs but hopefully they will appear at some point!!
I can’t wait for this place to blow up
Not literally though. But I have to say it’s giving me nostalgic feeling of old reddit when it would struggle to keep up with inflight of new users/activities.
The community here feels significantly more wholesome than Reddit in recent months. It’s nice seeing a lot of meaningful conversation without hate and spam.
The community here feels significantly more wholesome than Reddit in recent months. It’s nice seeing a lot of meaningful conversation without hate and spam.
I don’t want to sound like a cynic but so was reddit in its early years. We were all rallying for a cause on the great digg migration. It felt great to be part of that movement (or whatever you want to call that). I do hope Lemmy keeps this spirit up for as long as it can.
working on bringing mine over. hopefully nosleep comes with - they’ve been on the fence
Any examples? Why not start them yourself… Im sure others are thinking the same thing and searching for them. Especially now
The thing that would come to my mind would be game specific communities, like one for stellaris, another for the last of us, etc.
If I wouldn’t mind the work of moderating, I’d probably create one :)
I’m new here. I have no idea how to start a community. Any tips?
I think you just go to the top of the page and click “Create Community.”
Im brand new here as well, but my guess would be to start posting stuff about whatever your topic is, links etc so people who run across it have something to participate in. I imagine its kind of a labor of love in the beginning but if its not super niche I’m sure you’d show up on searches.
What are you looking to make? It may already exist on another instance and you can just sub there if it already has users.
I’m a little hesitant for big growth, came with the first wave of Redditors back when the news was fresh, but I’m trying to be optimistic. More people means more content, after all.
I also miss the niche subs, and ngl also my snoovatar, he was a nice little guy.
The snoovatars were absent on Apollo so I don’t miss them as much but damn do I miss the content centric design - the stock app doesn’t show flairs or u names in the default view, which sucks.
Hopefully this blows up and Reddit IPO gets cancelled
Well, I mean let’s be realistic. This is never going to kill reddit (though it might lower the content quality quite a bit). Don’t underestimate how many people just don’t care, who just want to scroll and read in their favorite subs. The people already using the official app. Those people aren’t going anywhere.
But I’m sort of very okay with that, to be honest. We don’t need ALL reddit users to come here. I’ve noticed I like the quiet here. Comments won’t get snowed over within 3 minute, people seem to be more polite and decent, commenting on posts older than a day is still ‘viable.’ These are all positives in my book.
There’s a ton of people who don’t care. Like Mastodon exists, but Twitter is still chugging. Reddit’s communities are a bit more organized, but time will tell if it translates into transition. Niche subreddits seem to be continuing
Commenting to show how many activities we can do in here
There’s so much room for activities!
Lemmy gang
Idk exactly what I’m doing but I’m having fun!
I hope more communities move to lemmy, especially the mental health/support ones.
As for lemmy in general, I have to say that apart from the lack of videos, it’s not bad at all, even the android apps are already better than the official reddit one (terribly slow for some reason).
What are the app options? Didn’t see any in the play store
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app
I’m using liftoff:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1
Apk of liftoff if the google play won’t let you install the app: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/tag/v0.10.1
others: https://lemmy.world/post/465785 and https://lemmy.world/post/401441
I can’t even sign in. It basically says that my account doesn’t exist.
Check that your instance is correct (lemmy.world) and try again when the server works better. Right now the server seems to be having a lot of trouble loading pages, etc, and maybe that’s why it’s not working for you.
Yeah, seems it was a server issue. I had used the correct instance last time as well, but it worked now. Thanks!
Reddit’s official app sucks down battery too. Someone tested it against Apollo. It sucks.
I’m actually really impressed with how similar an experience using Lemmy is to actual Reddit. We don’t have the established communities just yet, but the platform itself seems like a really good replacement
Yep, both Connect and Liftoff on the play store are good
I didn’t come sooner because I thought it was going to be too different. Last night Apollo stopped working for me so I followed a link talking about wefwef. Been here 10 minutes and the similarity to Apollo is awesome. I know Christian said he was going to move on to other things but if he could just invest his time in this instead…god I’d be so happy!
I’m in the same boat, but coming from RIF. Tried to use Mastodon before but wasn’t huge on the interface. I’m pleasantly surprised so far, I’m using Connect for Lemmy with reverse list view and it’s …not terribly dissimilar.
That said, it’s obviously still new, and slow. I’m going to see where this goes.
Happy to be here, even if I’m still confused asf as to how Lemmy works. Jerboa isn’t working very well for me, but I’m super thrilled to be a part of the migration!
Try Connect for Lemmy. I’m waiting for Sync to release
I second this. Connect has been working splendidly.
Just gotta work on that double reply
The irony
I second this. Connect has been working splendidly.
Using Connect also
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Just landed here from Reddit. I feel like I need a breakdown on how to use Lemmy and KBin and the differences and just everything in general lol
Wefwef is a good webapp that looks like Apollo that’s a lot nicer than the lemmy webapp
Edited name because I’m dumb
I think it looks and feels nice, but I’m encountering all sorts of errors in literally every app (including wefwef, that decided to stop working completely as I tried to open it 5 minutes ago). While trying to comment right now, I got errors twice (this is from Connect for Lemmy).
Servers are currently upgrading, just gotta be patient for a bit until they sort it out.
Yeah, already seems better today.
yes it’s sad :(
The errors seem to have at least reduced a bit today.
IMO memmy is super nice and polished (the best app so far), the lemmy.world servers are pretty hammered at the moment, but they are due for an upgrade in the next few hours, so theoretically everything should get better. wefwef is pretty cool too
Can I try memmy on Android?
reasonably sure memmy’s ios only for now :/
Yeah thought so. I’ll use wefwef for now until Sync or Boost comes out I guess.
Thanks I’ll check that out! Apologies for the dumb question but I’m still new to all this but do I have to create a new username and login for every Lemmy website or instance or can I just use my lemmy.world one?
Commenting to pump those numbres up!
Gotta stay active every day.
Getting used to things here. Signed up with a random instance. Trying to figure out if there is any benefit to signing up with a particular instance, and if it’s worth exploring for a better/closer instance to sign up with.
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“But once you understand how federation works, it doesn’t matter much because you can subscribe to communities on other instances using the same account.”
I’m obviously still figuring this out, but this doesn’t appear to be completely true, depending on the community. I subscribed to a community on another instance and the content isn’t the same when I visit it from this instance.
I made a post on that thread https://lemmy.world/comment/690842
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Good to know that is a possibility. Thanks for explaining.
