this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a live chart available?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

There’s one at fediverse observer and fedidb.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us.

I am one of the proud new users, and this is great to see!

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Welcome! It feels fresh to not be on a big tech platform.

[–] bndkt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m pretty new, but I like it here. It feels bigger than 54k MAU, probably because everyone is really active.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 hours ago

It also feels like half the activity on Reddit now comes from bots. It makes it feel emptier than it probably is to me when I go visit there occasionally, especially on the big subs. Which then makes me focus on the small subs, which end up feeling smaller or equal to the fediverse already, just on more niche topics.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 3 points 1 day ago

I completely agree!

Posting/commenting on Reddit largely feels like a waste of time to me if it’s not something big and attention grabbing. I would get zero people to interact for days, while on Lemmy I usually get a reply within a few hours if I have a question about a post.

Of course this isn’t evidence of anything, but I feel that it’s because Lemmy hasn’t been flooded with bots (yet? Hopefully never).

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 23 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Its still a shame that I will never recommend this place to anyone I know until the community changes here.

Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn't even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn't melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for "the normies".

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago

Me too, but I still prefer this place to reddit. I have the same exact gripe: those that must be the most right. I've just found a lot more of them on reddit than lemmy. I have lost count of the amount of times I start to write something on reddit, then imagine how someone somewhere, from some angle, can decide to be offended if they want to, then just delete the comment. It definitely happens on lemmy too, it's just in my experience it has happened less here, so I have been more willing to type out comments here. It really sucks that this has not been your experience.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section

I think this depends highly on the type of community. (Although clearly I'm doing it to you right now. Sorry.)

Highly political topics and such are the worst, probably. But others where people come because of a shared interest, like a sport or food or animal or something, a hobby, I think tend to be more chill and mellow.

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[–] Zero@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just keep posting and being the type of person you want to see as a community member here. The other site was exactly like you described above for a very long time!

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[–] grepe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

this is a problem with fediverse in general imho.

the tools admins and users have are blunt (defederate or block). with all sorts of content moderation policies and opinions you will inevitably end up either alienated from everyone or surrounded by people that think and talk just like you.

fediverse does offer many advantages... creating a better online "town square" is just not going to be one of them.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 1 day ago

I have this insane thought that shorter bans but publicly stated when/why/how-long would be more beneficial to keeping a community aligned when it's all we got. And that it would be harder to abuse and give insight into mods efforts.

But yeah I have said to others I intend to use it more as a link aggregator by effort but not community.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I've quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 119 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (11 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

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[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

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[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I'm beyond thrilled! can't wait to see some of my favorite communities spring up here.

[–] Picasso 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

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[–] amos@mander.xyz 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

This!!

Help the communities you like to see grow.

Just making one or two posts in communities that seem dead gets the ball rolling in making them alive.

It also motivates others to post.

[–] sjmarf 143 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Worth noting is that what counts as an "active user" has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an "active user" was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.

[–] Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 55 points 3 days ago

Huzzah, us lurkers now count towards the global stats!

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[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 74 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 196 points 3 days ago (25 children)

The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit's desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 78 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Woo! That's awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

We are already successful, I'm seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

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[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

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[–] imetators@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 3 days ago (18 children)

To anyone new wondering about phone apps for Lemmy, I use "Thunder" and it works great.

Also, feel free to say Luigi without getting banned.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 64 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps to not be shit. looking at reddit.

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[–] match@pawb.social 46 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I'm calling this one the exodus of st mangione

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[–] metalsd@eviltoast.org 12 points 2 days ago

I hope this keeps growing. I'm loving it here, and the fediverse idea is amazing. I hope we succeed and descentralize social media. Power to the people again

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