The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only…
You make I upload? Deal?
So much possibility…
…is this for real? I don’t want to check, but I also can’t tell if this is a joke.
I just checked, it exists but has 2500 subs
They’ve Streisanded it. Just the previous mention jumped the numbers 25%!
All part of my master plan
https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it’s just have 2000 user?
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
I’m holding out till we get taytays back of the knees sub! That’s truely the peak god tier content! Looool
You can try posting it to !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , not sure how well it will be received
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).
Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen
Everyone is comparing active users to total users though, Lemmy’s total users is about 10x the number of actives users at 477k. I think you have to post or comment to be marked active?
Think it was changed to include upvotes/downvotes. Could be wrong, saw it on a similar thread.
Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
Beep Boop, Am Not A Bot… 🤖
Show us a filled checkbox right this instant!
Erm… checkbox… here: ❌️
🤖
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a bot?
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
Lfg!!!
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Good :) welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech.
Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Welcome back
Welcome back!
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
I have been temporarily banned from a new account I made a while ago to return after my permabanned last summer. I am seriously thinking of fully ditching reddit save for a few special nerdy interests (and porn).
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
That’s why I’m here.
Welcome!
Welcome back!
whee!!! let the rollercoaster climb for the reddit decline!
Cue the ‘too the moon’ rocket but with the btc logo removed and the Fediverse icon added.
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
I am not interesting
Lemmy needs post creators above all but we will take everyone
Sir, shit posters are the back bone of any online fora.
What happened 2023?
The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.
I remember there were reddit-likes too, they just didnt work with fediverse. And were mostly…well almost all were unsavory. Like they were ONLY populated with people reddit didnt want anymore. Communities with banned content. So not the greatest.
Im glad lemmy/piefed/kbin and all other activityhub/fediverse alternatives are out there.
I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they’re talking about Reddit
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn’t auto perm ban me “ban evasion,” and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn’t want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it’s clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It’s like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should’ve been made long ago.
Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id and did a highlight by highlight match thread on !cricket@lemmy.world once. That last one was painful af.
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
Noice. Tbh I didn’t post too much on /r/Android as I liked being a mod on it as I’m a huge Android nerd; I think people would have called mod abuse or something if they only saw my posts in the feed lol. People liked to be overtly critical of the modding anyway on that subreddit.
Oh I didn’t realize you modded r/android. Ping me if you’d like to be a moderator of !android@lemdro.id
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Same boat here
The same…boat??? BOAT???
Thank you for your service 🫡
Yeah! I’ve been doing the same. I actually find myself thinking “I haven’t participated in a conversation in over a week. I better find something to comment on.”
Likewise
I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I’ve been busy over here lol
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
I don’t let that stop me.
If you at least upvote you aren’t lurking as that counts as engagement.
lmao posting in communtities from my different accounts (not to the same communities, like alts for keeping notifcations on topics seperate) to help build up my future lurking places
My app tells me I upvoted you 12 times in the last 10 days. Thank you
What app is that? Does it also show me other’s up votes?
vger.app but you need to enable the feature in your settings. It will show next to their usernames
It’s great! Let’s me quickly see how I get along with or not. :D
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
Even though i have been much more active here than on reddit, i have way less karma
Every time i tried to calculate the percentage of how much less, it said something about dbzer0.com for some reason
Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!
Fun times.
Do you have a graph for these numbers?
Nice. The amount of Lemmy servers online are shrinking?
You’re welcome.
