I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.
the way it’s going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.
So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.
edit: source for the graph
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For me I deleted my account a month ago after 2 years of lemmy. I forgot about this account and jerboa install, the only community sub is this one haha.
I figure I’ll just say why I left, this place became a depressing shit hole.
The communities aren’t niche enough because it’s not big enough, so it’s just a shit experience. I’m just going to look to old school forums again. Phpbb you must still be out there…
I figure I’ll still keep this account in case I need to use it for something useful. One never knows when they’ll get lost on the seas and need some directions.
Fediverse is changing. People used to put the text of images, like comics, in the body of the OP to be more accessible, but I haven’t seen that in ages. It’s something I noticed.
Lemmy feels like a return to the old internet, when communities were smaller, and for me its refreshing to be able to participate in communities on major topics again without getting drowned out. It harkens back to the days of early forums and message boards, where users gathered around shared interests and discussions felt more organic.
The source data shows that while active users are down, the number of posts and comments are near all-time highs. While you need new users to help counteract churn, I think the higher post/comments count points to what I think a lot of people feel here: that quality seems to keep getting better and better.
Regarding how to bring more people in, I personally like how different lemmy servers have slightly different characteristics but each seems to appeal to larger groups. .world is great for more liberal folks with an interest in what’s going on the world around us. I’m literally a communist so I feel more at home in .ml. Sometimes I want to venture out, sometimes I want to stay in. I see a future where there’s probably a small-ish number of large servers that cover broad groups of people.
Okay, now let’s see Piefed and mbin users!
A lot of those ‘users’ are bots or paid shills too.
Why does the y axis not start at 0?
That’s because it’s not representing the beginning of Lemmy but rather a point in time after.
With y I mean the vertical one.
@gandalf-der-12te. Trying to interpret your post.
Do you have any comparable data, from other other apps? stuff like engagement %, daily, monthly users and such?
Also also we we could aim for both more quality and quantity. Why not? Trashy people can always join Trashy instance, or whoever and whenever. That’s imo what’s Lemmy is all about. A hook in every nook?
i don’t have any data on other fediverse platforms at hand rn, but from memory IIRC mastodon has close to 1 million users, and it’s by far the biggest chunk of the fediverse.
- mastodon is people-centric, where you have person/user as the central element of organization, and they can have posts.
- lemmy is content-centric, where you have communities as the central element of organization, and they can have posts.
AFAIK, content-centric networks are only lemmy and piefed as of today, modeled after Reddit. lemmy is bigger (i think) with 30K (active) users.
AFAIK, content-centric networks are only lemmy and piefed as of today, modeled after Reddit.
There’s also Mbin, which I’m using. And NodeBB and Discourse if we go beyond Reddit-inspired and include forums.
Good point regarding the differences in content or user driven apps. Hadn’t thought of that.
It would be good to have comparable info on trends numbers and such.
Edit : quick searzh for reddit analysis I can’t verify the legitimacy of this page.
But it states that in 2025 116 million unique daily visitors compared to 1360 million monthly users, its like a 1 to 12 ratio for daily & monthly user ratio; as an example.
the big dip in 2024, oct might have something to do with people going back to reddit and other social media trump news?
The text in the graph needs better contrast. I can’t read that shit
I just don’t get why people would stay in reddit when lemmy exist :(
Total servers are way down and so are users. But how come the number of comments has increased?
I was meaning to buy a bunch of sticker for all sort of cool stuff I support (lemmy/fedi being one of those things) and stick it around the city. Know its not much, but its fun! :)
Isn’t this not much better than graffiti? I think advocating for the fediverse is great, but let’s not plaster unnecessary and potentially illegal posters/advertisements everywhere.
If you want to display an appreciation for the fediverse, perhaps there are T-shirts with the fediverse logo?
graffiti is cool though :(
found a lot of cool projects and organizations through stickers. i prefer it over a big bright televisions plastering the city trying to sell you unhealthy things.
I definitely do not find graffiti cool. It’s illegal and antisocial behavior. The art can be cool of course (although it very rarely is in my experience), but the illegal act is not.
The “Workers over billionaires” sticker advocating for workers right, sits on the post of a grocery cart corral. I smile everytime I see it. I’m thankful for who ever stuck it there, and even cooler, it’s not been scrubbed off after a full year.
You can cry rules/laws if you want, but where I am, the powers at large are not bound by any law, so why must I be bound to something so arbitrary? Why should we not advocate for ourselves in anyway possible?
Do you understand how hopeful it is to see graffiti/stickers in support of your values out in the wild? I was filled with hope when I first saw that sticker, for we are not alone
It feels really arrogant to call these acts antisocial behavior. It’s not
There’s also plenty of community boards around one could post a sticker to with a thumb tack, and it breaks no rule. It’s free for use.
It might be because I am in Denmark which has quite a functioning and lawful system and where I see the most graffiti is in public transport, like on trains and train stations. The transport company spends a lot of money cleaning that graffiti, making public transport more expensive for everyone else (hence antisocial behavior).
So I can understand where you are coming from but my perspective is just different.
the difference between graffiti and stickers is that typically, you can remove stickers quite easily, while graffiti is a more difficult-to-remove thing. so there’s not much damage done.
I mean, that’s still acknowledging that damage is being done, just less than actual graffiti. I’d rather not associate the fediverse with defacing public spaces with half-scraped off stickers.
Again, feel like a t-shirt or a cap is a much better option.
ehh, there’s spaces where adding stickers (that advocate for public-benefit, non-commercial stuff) is considered socially acceptable, such as in certain university buildings, pubs/bars, the back of your own laptop, …
Alright alright, definitely in those contexts there is no problem, of course.
can you please share the sticker design? :)
then others can use them too
let me cook. :)
will be posting it on here.
I have faith in the EU’s opensource policy. Things will change. We’re in no rush.
I think posting quality content (or at least trying to be quality content hahaha) and good comments keep the users visiting back.
I just try to post one or two posts a day (to not spam things), comment a little bit, it seems it grows some communities on our instance. Some communities were dead, now at least some people post at these places.
