It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!
https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50
Total users are huge now.
There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.
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numbers go brrrr.
I found Lemmy through grapheneos! That’s my story. Love it.
If I hadn’t smashed my iPhone in a work related accident I would never know the joy of ditching reddit and joining you folks.
Hazzah for happenstance! Life is great!
Newbie checking in. Hi.
Me too! And not a bot! Woohoo!
And not a bot!
Wonderful! We love human flesh around here!
EDIT: Ok, I’m reading that back and I see how it sounds. Just editing to say we are not cannibals.
EDIT 2: Ok, I know that denying that we are cannibals makes it look even more like we are cannibals, but I promise you we are not
Even if you were cannibals, you have to remember I’m coming from reddit! Cannibals are preferential to being at the bottom of that poisonous swamp!
I’m fairly new myself and in the last week I’ve noticed quite a few new users. Not a ton but a lot more than when I joined months ago.
I’m a new user! Pl3ased to meet you. Still getting used to not having my text autocorrectes to the level of iphon3. It feels more organic 5ho.
bots. bots everywhere.
Not me. I just get drunk at work and reply to every string of text that I feel like!
Upvoted for Oxford Comma
I am new here
Welcome!
Welcome
Nope. It seems it is a sicker Reddit. No matter the congenitalilty, the engagement is just frankly gross.
Maybe I need to move from lemmy.zip, but the vetting is a pain in the ass.
People are just difficult to even talk to these days.
I am actually a really sweet but sardonic guy. No freedom of speech and no humor. Just an exasperation of the things that killed reddit.
No actual discussion. Fuck this.
It definitly isn’t easy going. Just write whats on your mind and be careful to not doxx yourself.
If you’re not a socialist then you may often find yourself lost and unwelcome here, and I’m absolutely not talking about the ml grounds because they lowkey welcome fascists
Is that why I feel so at home here? Am I a socialist!? Did Lemmy make me a socialist! Oh no, what am I going to tell my mother when sh3 finds out.
But in all seriousness… Tho the text above was not made in jest, Would you consider yourself to be described in that way? A socialist? If not a socialist, how do you find the wherewithal to stick around?
take your meds
I drink mine, FYI 🤪
*ETA
& tyvm
It’s not about socialism. Most people on Reddit and crybabies and the Fediverse seems to have inherited that culture.
not even lowkey at this point, it’s a full-on fascist supporting community.
lemmy.zip imo is notoriously shit. It was one of the first communities I blocked when I joined the fediverse.
…are you ok?
Did you just wake up?
Being well adjusted to a sick society is no measure of good health.
One can be maladjusted and still happy. Jeezy Pete!
Reddit ban people -> people look for alternatives
Fuck reddits mods
Whenever I feel bad about my lot in life, I always remember that at least I’m not a reddit mod.
I’ve definitely noticed my shitpost comments get a lot more engagement than they used to, so that’s fun
maybe the posts are just getting shitttier?
I haven’t gotten any new users on my app so this has to be fake
note that this is accounts. So for example, I have 3 accounts I use regularily.
There is just so much you can do as a human even with multiple accounts. So unless you’re daily driving 50 accounts somehow and most others got nothing better to do as well, I still count that as a positive trend.
Im not downplaying the growth. Just putting out there that it is easy to think active users means different people, which is not true.
Yeah, I’m new (also driven from Reddit after the recent changes) and within like a week I signed up for three different servers, and I’ll probably sign up for more if I can figure out how to navigate servers well enough to find what I’m looking for.
It’s actually rather nice to have separate accounts for different use cases and not mix, say, a memery and general discussion account with an art account.
True, same for me. But I have been for quite a while and I’m not creating new ones. I’m guessing legit users don’t need many accounts, so I’d be more concerned about botting.
I joined Lemmy, like 3 years ago I think. But I didn’t start being active until this year. I think there is a lot of people like me, especially now that you have to log in to see old reddit. https://old.lemmy.world/ really tipped me over the edge in to being a regular.
Leaving Reddit wasn’t easy. I read the tea leaves and left at apigate.
I had already eschewed Youtube API and was keeping Facebook out of arms length,
I poked around Bluesky for a while, it had a very strong pull.
I do not need machine-fed unlimited social media and news I don’t thrive on it. Doomscrolling is not a good hobby.
Yea, reddit has been a serious habit for me for almost 20 years, never been on Insta or Facebook or any other SM platform like I was on reddit, everyday all day in the background. Its been a hard one to break.
One of us!
One of us!
I’m doing my part! 🥳
