Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.
Agreed. It’s really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we’ll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.
The small niche communities are pretty much dead, sadly. But there for sure is hope!
For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.
It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.
Line goes up?
You failed to continue multiplicative growth therefore your investors are going to pull their money… Wait there are no investors, there is no ipo. I’m going to donate 10$.
How easy is it!
I just used my Reddit name and continued here.
No effort what so ever.
Bit to wrap my head around the idea of subs being completely different communities on different servers, but I LIKE that idea… no Fascist Overlords to control the groupthink.
I guess (if this is how the Lemmyverse/Fediverse works) is some AWS/cloud instances are going to be spun up hard and fast!
This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.
I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.
And obligatory fuck spez
Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.
And yes, fuck Spez
Ngl, I’m gonna miss these early days I think. Hopefully we have instilled some type of decent, thoughtful culture on here that can keep us grounded and keep flourishing.
I really like getting in on these big threads later at night when everyone is chopping it up and making me think.
Sadly those are bots, real amount of users is around 150k. Source: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547
Apparently a lot of those bots are just farming reddit and reposting here. Which I think in the short term is a good thing. People are more likely to join/stay if they see content. On the other I hope lemmy has the tools to prevent bot content from overwhelming user generated posts to the point that it loses the authenticity.
That’s an interesting take, but I could definitely see it working out. As long as the reposted content isn’t ads or spam, it could help the fediverse have content while it grows.
I would love to have a bot/a few scripts to migrate a lot of the useful posts that were on reddit over here for a few of my hobby communities instead of having to move them manually. I can definitely see a lot of use cases for those.
Lets fucking go. Fuck you spez.
AND MY AXE!
AND MY BOW
I came here in search for an alternative for reddit. I am glad I found this place
Same, and I’m already loving this place
I think it’s either bots or some spooky spammers that are falsely reporting the number of users. e.g. lemmy.k6qw.com currently claims to have 44k users with no posts…
Yeah that’s a bad instance.
There are many more bad instances like this in the statistics. I think it will become a problem for Lemmy sooner or later.
Probably! But in the mean time I bet some real people will join just because they see the numbers going up.
I joined like 10 sec before
Welcome!
I understand the bot concern, but when I look at the comment and active user figures, they’re all in the same trendline of exponential growth. This is the exodus just beginning. Personally I’m finding Lemmy to be a refreshing alternative that serves far better than what Reddit has become. I think it’s what we’ve all been waiting for, and the secret’s starting to get out.
It’s actually pretty badass to see how quick the response is developing and the awareness being so immediate. What’s really cool is to see what gets done about a problem with full transparency, instead of Reddit Admins’ chamber of secrets.
the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.
Were you using new reddit? I don’t find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).
Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster
I’ve tried moving away from Reddit several times with varying degrees of success, this time though it’s felt really easy - the more i learn about Lemmy the more i like it and look forward to seeing it evolve. There are some really nice communities here too, feels like a lot of the most interesting people have come here but the spammers, bots and trolls haven’t yet – i’m sure it’ll change as things grow but i’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.
Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.
something something undertaker mankind cage something.
I read shittymorph’s most recent Undertaker post in a thread the other day. It felt like a semi retirement post; at least that’s the vibe I got from it.
Maybe some will migrate here, maybe new ones will pop up. End of an era either way though.
We’ll know Lemmy truly is the future when we have the first shittymorph post.
Hey, I’m just here to shitpost and promote “Barbie”, OK?
Please, let’s bring the conversation back to Rampart.
/shrugs. I got my old username. I’m happy.
Not https, your account will never be secure
I want to see shittywatercolors here in the fediverse!
Where are you shitty? We want your colors of water
@MicroWave the fact that there are almost a million people that are users on lemmy shows that there are a million more on the fediverse as a whole. i am very glad lemmy federated on activitypub. so i can use mastodon to communicate to lemmy communities.
@MicroWave
There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.
We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)
Just check https://lemmit.online/c/itookapicture . Sadly only bot posts
They’re supposed to be bot posts. That’s what lemmit.online is for. To copy Reddit content into communities on lemmit.online.
This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, it’s not made purely to spam communities afaik
