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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

I flipping love Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I'm in this picture and I like it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yay!!! Let’s go :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Zoidberg voice: hooray im helping

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (16 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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (6 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)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Wow. And we’re almost at the halfway point of the month. I wonder if we’ll reach 100k at eom.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lemm.ee has been lagging for me lately idk if it has to do with all the new signups

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