Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at !reddit@lemmy.world

For people wanting to discuss why some people focus on Lemmy’s growth, here is a recent thread from !asklemmy@lemmy.world :

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Hey congratulations you discovered a statistical anomaly.

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10 points

Congratulations you discovered pointless negativity

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Congratulations you discovered framing

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14 points

It may be, but could you try making the same remark without sounding like a toxic asshole?

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Didn’t sound like a toxic asshole to me. But I grew up in the rural midwest in the 90s. That just sounds like someone making a comment, from my culture.

But go on, policing everyone’s tone. I’m sure it’s great for diversity.

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Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here.

Two days old today, baaabbby!!

Doing my part tho! I’ve created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)

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11 points

That is crazy. Nice work! :D

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2 points

Thank you. Everyone is calling me a troll and saying things like, “Troll alert. Account is only 2 days old!”

But WTF? Are we supposed to wait after we create an account to start posting?

No. I created an account so I could START posting. lol

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8 points

Welcome!

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4 points

Welcome to the upgrade!

We need more work horses like you 💙

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Thank you! But wow, the people in the c/poltics sub are convinced I am a “media manipulator” because my account is only a few days old and I have started communities. lol

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1 point

Gotta control the narrative :P

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3 points

People in political communities can be a bit opinionated. Hopefully it will fade away as your account will get older

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31 points

Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I’d rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren’t here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

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1 point

Cross post bots? Why cross post bots?

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25 points

Which content are you interested in?

https://lemmit.online/ can be used to crosspost content from Reddit, but you won’t get much comments as people tend to prefer content curated by humans

!newcommunities@lemmy.world has a weekly thread with active communities.

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43 points

The content/users aren’t here so I’m stubbornly trying to post content and comment whenever I can.

Even if I shout into the void, or get a few upvotes and little other engagement.

Although I understand it’s not for everyone, I encourage you to help out with that ;-;

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I was never much of an /r/all user, it’s always been niche communities for me. I feel like almost all of my niches have content here now (if not quite as much engagement as I’d like). !retrogaming@lemmy.world in particular has exploded with activity lately and arguably can now serve as a full replacement for its subreddit counterpart.

Thing is, when I try to bring people on Lemmy, it’s always “why?” and if I make it that far, “how?” With the how, I’ve been using the analogy of signing up for email, though it’s still not as smooth as it could be. Eyes glaze over when anyone starts asking me about how the Fediverse in general works.

The why is harder. I don’t know how much user bleed-over niche Reddit got from /r/all users but I’m guessing it wasn’t a trivial amount. I’m sure a lot of Reddit’s growth was owed to AMAs, so it’s possible Lemmy might need something flashy to draw in users who will then filter into communities waiting for them. Some sort of content unique to the platform. I do think before we get there we need a friendlier way to help new people find communities they may have interest in.

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when I try to bring people on Lemmy, it’s always “why?” and if I make it that far, “how?” With the how, I’ve been using the analogy of signing up for email, though it’s still not as smooth as it could be.

You don’t have to bother with that. Just send them to a single instance to sign up. Stable, general-purpose instances like lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, or lemmy.zip are good recommendations. You don’t really need to understand the details of how federation works to start using Lemmy. They can learn as they go.

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That’s what I’m doing. I got 2 subs that I frequented on Reddit I’m running, one is a sports one with discussions for the events, and it’s literally just me putting commentary into it. But that’s what I loved about the Reddit sports subs, so I’ll at least have it for when people come here.

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Thank you for your service. I have little interest in sports, but love to see Lemmy growth in general. We need a diversity of communities here, not just Linux memes :)

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5 points

Thanks for your service. I’m more of a lurker, though I tend to comment more here than on Reddit, and I have so many other things filling my life that I have to tend to. This is just a distraction before bed or filling a dull moment.

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21 points

Even if I shout into the void, or get a few upvotes and little other engagement.

For people in similar situations, !fedigrow@lemm.ee

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10 points

Didn’t know about that one. Just subscribed!

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14 points

Why not cross post some of the content yourself?

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4 points

I don’t have the time. This just fills the empty gaps in my day, before bed winding down

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2 points

Isn’t that how it always goes. Everyone wants the end result, but nobody wants to do the work.

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11 points

Out of curiosity, what content are you looking for? Discovery on Lemmy can be a problem, but sometimes the communities are there and even active, just buried.

But may I also suggest searching by Top Day/12-hour/6-hour to see the most active posts. Lemmy’s scaled algorithm still doesn’t get it quite right IMO.

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7 points

Scaled is intentionally promoting communities with fewer subscribers. It’s intentionally demoting the most active posts bt demoting any posts from the communities with more subscribers.

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Scaled is amazing for the Subscribed feed, because I’m (obviously) interested in the small communities that I’m subscribed to. But it’s not quite the same when browsing All or Local. Usually I do stick to Subscribed though.

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3 points

Just… content. I open my Lemmy app once and I’ve seen everything it will show me for the day, or sometimes for multiple days. I open reddit and I can scroll for hours.

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Just… content.

I open reddit and I can scroll for hours.

If all you want is “content” you can browse Lemmy by /all, sort by new, and also scroll for hours. That isn’t how I use Lemmy (or Reddit) though, and it’s not how I would recommend using it.

I open my Lemmy app once and I’ve seen everything it will show me for the day, or sometimes for multiple days.

I almost exclusively browse by subscribed. When I first came to Lemmy, I kept subscribing to communities until I had too much content in my subscribed feed to keep up with. Over time, I’ve gradually unsubscribed to communities I’m only tangentially interested in, as communities for my main interests have grown.

Do you think an approach like this would work for you?

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Those bots got blocked and banned.

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1 point

They do…?

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Initially, yes. They probably relaxed it a bit.

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13 points

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

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15 points

You think that, on average, half of active users are alts…?

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5 points

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn’t surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

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3 points

Alts or bots, maybe

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16 points

More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

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9 points

I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

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5 points

Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.

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23 points

It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

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Hopefully Sublinks, PieFed or Mbin will be ready soon so that we can ditch Lemmy entirely.

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Are those better than Lemmy? I’m enjoying Lemmy so far.

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5 points

At this point i think piefed feels better with it’s ability to subscribe to posts and comments and incrementally read stuff, and also the wiki system . mbin reportedly has multireddits but i played with it and could not figure out how to enable it. but piefed still didn’t have a beta release.

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4 points

They are different, but Lemmy is still a solid choice

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5 points

I’m out of the loop, what are the highly requested features?

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I suppose for me more compact posts and in community search.

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7 points

Multi communities, tags, dedicated moderation dashboard

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4 points

probably the best (or least worst) indication of that is sorting issues by “thumbs up” on github, see lemmy and lemmy-ui. I think having a survey among donors (like godot had on patreon) is a better indicator.

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The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

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8 points

TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

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4 points

I love that.

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there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

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True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

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I was so confused when I heard about lemmy-ui-leptos, it really sounds like a waste of time to me 🤷‍♂️

I’m sure everyone has a different opinion, but I think the most important new feature should be the plugin system. It seems like the only way to scale up the number of contributors and support a variety of languages.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

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4 points

Yes, that could be huge

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That’s weird! I go on Lemmy daily and it’s been feeling a lot busier IMO.

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