Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 23:31
https://piefed.social/post/1201745
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 23:31
https://piefed.social/post/1201745
Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000
(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).
We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- And a small increase on Piefed: piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: peertube.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Mastodon is all over the place: mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
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Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?
Probably.
yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline
Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.
All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later
Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.
No. Everyone just decided to stop using the fediverse a couple of times for like a day. Guess you missed it.
Touch Grass Day
I came to ask why everyone suddenly deleted their account
What’s with masto’s spontaneous drop in posts and contemporaneous rise in users about a month ago?
it must’ve been a big instance going offline (or switching platforms? or blocking the stats collection?)
also note a lot of those graphs don’t start at 0, the Y axis is zoomed
The Fediverse is more stable than my country’s government
Finna guess right quick.
US?
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
While the letters are adjacent, I don't think that was a typo. "Finna" is pretty common slang, just a variant of "gonna"
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
For further clarity, it's a shortening of "fitting to" just like how "gonna" is a shortening of "going to." As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.
While you’re on the right track, it’s fixing to, which to be honest doesn’t make any sense
Wiktionary suggests both “fixing to” and “fitting to” are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear “fixing to”. As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying “trying to” to mean “want to”.
Huh, I’ve never heard anyone say fitting to.
Trying to make more sense to me, because you haven’t done what you’re attempting, but you are attempting
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Short for fixing to, which now that I type it out, it makes less sense than finna
You nailed it. Short moment in time that anyone would agree though.
Yeah finna boutta
I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
Could also be The Netherlands, where an already fallen government managed to fall again. (meaning that 2 of the 4 leading parties have so far stepped out of the coalition)
Wow, I wonder why.
If only we could move as easily as we can switch servers.
For the last two years there’s been periods where I’d use Lemmy religiously for a month and then not touch it for three. Lemm.ee shutting down killed a lot of my motivation and excitement, but I’m back on the rollercoaster.
RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus' wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.
2-year lemm.ee user and general fan of all things Eesti, yeah. That one hurt. But I’m grateful my handle there still exists, and Lemmy’s still home, thanks to some very nice Canadians. Sure af ain’t going back to reddit/xhitter, etc.
i noticed alot less content without lemee.ee, mainly because people scattered to other instances.
Most of the lemm.ee communities went to a single community, the drop in content is mostly due to summer
Good to see you back!
<3
for me it’s mostly when i get flooded by comments from extremist nutbags. at least on lemmy they arne’t reporting me to get me banned site-wide. they mostly just send me links via messaging to ‘educate’ me. which is annoying but not pathetic.
The bullet points, right? I think that guy is botting. It’s a shame that instance-level bans aren’t more comprehensive.
I had a similar problem with Lemmy.one. It was the push I needed to move over to Piefed, and I'm glad I did.
Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.
Most posts are links to other websites.
It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.
Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.
Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don’t want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.
It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.
And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.
Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.
I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.
The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?
The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.
I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.
We’ll see what happens I guess.
i think OC started to increase after 45 1st term, thats when people really jumped into social media for all the drama and content, and then found more drama(like livestream, and youtube,etc). i unkowingly used reddit(dint know it existed) around '13-14 ish for a console game. only til drumpf was elected then i moved over, before that i was still on Y’a answers enough.
I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.
There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.
thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning “QUESTIONABLE” subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.
the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.
Discussions are, arguably, their own type of OC. Like this thread as one example. That’s the kind of thing I, and I suspect @fujiwood@lemmy.world, would love to see more of.
too bad alot of them are still significant on reddit, and are unlikely to move here, unless they all get banned somehow. we might see more users here if reddit does another ban wave, although i think reddit mightve figured shadowbanning is much more useful.
most of the banning comes from the bigger subs, not the small niche ones.
every time i have been banned it’s from political comments in a larger sub. never a niche one. my last ban was for supporting the mayor in a city subreddit. apparently it’s ‘enabling racism’ to mention the race of your mayor in a positive light.
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip
Not sure how you define strong but MAU has been dropping quite consistently for the past year or so.
r/Redditalternatives describes the various reasons that people decided to abandon Lemmy and go back to Reddit:
- lack of content
- too difficult to figure out how to use
- it's "the place that tankies built"
- too toxic, extremist leftists piling on anything not supporting their dogma hard enough (edit: here is an actual example), or sometimes just "too political"
- overall they do not feel welcomed. Tbf many on Reddit are centrists or even conservatives, and quite toxic themselves.
Notably, PieFed provides solutions to many of these e.g. the sign-up wizard that subscribes people to communities based on their indicated interests.
Conservatives: “All these big websites keep gradually sucking for some unknowable reason. They must all just have the wrong people in charge.”
No... well yes, obviously 🤣, but not exclusively I mean.
Example 1
Example 2, with this seemingly relevant excerpt:
And further down the comment chain the same person says:
This person sounds like if not an actual liberal then at most a centrist who was seeking help in understanding a specific issue (which is linked there in the comments), but got kicked out for trying to discuss it. Tbf there truly do need to be safe spaces I get that, so I'm not coming down hard on any particular examples or even a particular style of solution - and I certainly am not advocating for cessation of moderation!!! (Nor do I agree in the slightest that lemmy.world is one of Lemmy's worst sites or even a particularly bad one) I am just providing this context of why people say that they have left Lemmy, even those extremely few that joined here in the first place, so having gotten over the "too confusing to figure out" stage.
If I were to advocate for a solution, it might be to create some spaces that are more welcoming to centrists, which would mean proper labeling of spaces not like in "correct vs. absolutely horribly and morally bankrupt" but more "left vs. right" (which itself is difficult to describe as it depends on local context). Or at least be honest about how this place is, i.e. give up any hopes that it will ever grow much beyond what it is now. Purity beatings will continue until morale improves... and if you don't like it then you can leav- hey where are you going!? (screeching) Don't you know what a "nice man" I am!?! 🤣
I was referring to the entire fedi is losing users. Appreciate sharing about Lenin.
not loving the inorganic appearance in some of those rises and climbs. the sudden ones or the curved ones.
The first big jump lines up with the Reddit API Controversy. The June 2025 rise and fall is users migrating from lemm.ee, and then their previous accounts becoming inactive. I imagine the other irregularities are from similar events
Thank you for correcting a lazy, ignorant hot-take.
Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here
If lemmy implement passkey and show all the comments of the post like in piefed with ccp social credit shit. I will hope back to it
The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.
We need to keep this momentum going.
We need more federated systems
ok. so i’ve got around 30tb (and counting) of live music recordings from a small club that hosts national touring folk and americana acts. i would LOVE to have it accessible somewhere other than youtube with all the fukin ads, but i am not sure how to go about making them peer tube accessible.
the instances that i’ve looked into have pretty low caps on storage and for clear and understandable reasons. but that leaves me in the lurch. i’m not able to set up my own instance as the recordings are ongoing and that takes all my available time and resources.
anyone have some knowledge that it don’t?
long live the fediverse.
I have no knowledge on such things, but I love this!
@turdburglar
I follow @LiveMusicArchiveUpdates
Which links to a lot of live music files at archive.org
Not sure if they would be interested.
Anyway good luck.
i actually wrote to them a few months ago. i tried the library of congress as well since they took the alan lomax recordings.
neither responded. that’s when i started looking at peertube.
You could upload the files to a S3 bucket, which would give them a url on the web. Then just make a PieFed post which links to each MP4 file.
Piefed will detect that it's a video post and embed it in the page with player controls. If you use a community just for your videos then the RSS feed of that community will effectively be a podcast.
S3 buckets are pretty cheap but 30 tb is still going to cost you. Transcode to a smaller file before upload, ideally.
thanks for that. i’m currently saving up for more drives to create the second copy of the 1-2-3 backup scheme. the gang of 2tb ssd’s are all i’ve got aside from the compressed-to-fuck youtube copies. that’s been creating quite a bit of anxiety for me being in charge of so many other peoples artworks.
we started in 2020 and do 6-10 90 minute shows a week, so it’s a lot to be responsible for. of course they aren’t all gems, but imo they all do deserve to be part of the larger document of this time and place.
if anyone is interested the youtube videos are made searchable on www.livefromnorfolkstreet.com
click on the ARCHIVE link in the nav bar. no paywall.
i’d recommend the alejandro escovedo shows. he’s always great and i did the live lights for a few of his shows.
@rimu @turdburglar And it's worth noting that you don't have to use AWS for S3 buckets. I use iDrive, who are quite a bit cheaper than Amazon, and you can also opt to have your buckets on European servers, which may be a plus.
I think they have generous discounts in the first year to hook you in, but even after that they're still cheaper than Amazon.
Yup, or self host a S3-compatible server. Much easier to set up and maintain than peertube, I bet.
I believe Garage is the only self-hosted option that allows you to directly expose to html links though.
Might be nice if you could test that with Piefed some time 😊
I might just do that....
@turdburglar @mesamunefire
Maybe Internet Archive?
https://archive.org/details/etree
That would be my recommendation too. At that level at least.
@turdburglar @mesamunefire
Many people, myself included, start a collection at archive.org and upload into that collection.
If there are cover songs, and there probably are, archive.org has the DMCA notification response team so you don't have to worry about that.
You can share audio and video using their widgets. I do that and I also use my own KGPL software which is an internet radio station where anyone can build widgets.
https://kgpl.org/lmajazz
#music #distribution #archive
i kinda love the idea of making a radio station out of this collection. thank you for this information. imma check into it further.
Glad I joined it!💪👋
We’re glad you’re here too!
Having spent about 2 years on Lemmy, I made the commitment to ditch YouTube in favor of PeerTube.
At first, it may look like there’s mostly garbage and then some privacy enthusiasts, but that’s only because recommendations and search are not very powerful compared to other platforms.
PeerTube is home to troves upon troves of high-quality original content on various topics, you just have to look for it. And for your YouTube-exclusive needs, there are instances that mirror popular channels.
Give it a spin!
Can you give me a small list of channels producing such high quality content on Peertube?
Difficult to recommend specific channels as I don’t know what you’d like, but I’ve found high quality content hosted on these instances :
Other creators host their own instance. For example there’s @ozoned doing interview of fediverse people at video.firesidefedi.live
What the other commenter said, look for these instances, especially TILvids
Other than these, some specific recommendations:
Gardiner Bryant (gbryant@subscribeto.me) - tech YouTuber dipping toes into PeerTube
Oh The Urbanity! (ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com) - urbanism and sustainable development
ASMR of the Fediverse (asmrfediverse@peertube.wtf) - self-explanatory, ASMR videos specifically produced and released on the Fediverse. Exclusive high-quality content!
Making Waves/Roots and Calluses (makingwaves@video.katehildenbrand.com & katehildenbrand@video.katehildenbrand.com) - personal/professional blogs of a marine biologist Kate Hildenbrand, both very worth a watch
Veronica Explains (veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube) - a very cute and non-typical Linux channel from a veteran tech enthusiast
Films (films@fedi.video) - old but gold public domain films
Historical Shorts (historical@fedi.video) - some more tapes from the past
Replying to save this comment. Thank you 👍
Welcome!
Take a look at !peertube@lemmy.world (or the links on the side) and look at Top. Maybe you will see some channels you would like.
And if your on piefed, you can take a look at https://piefed.social/f/fediversevideos, lots of great channels!
Great find!
Just want to point out that there are more people in !peertube@lemmy.ml
I just don’t use youtube, I prefer reading blogs anyway but I’ll look around!
I only use YouTube to pirate their content
I used to do that for music, but I got a token for a music platform that has all the music I need but in flac :)
I love text blogs, but sometimes videos do a better job to entertain/get the point across for me :)
Hope you’ll find some treasures of your own!
Peertube takes awhile to figure out/get going. Other stuff like Mastodon/Akkoma, Lemmy/Piefeed, were easy to figure out to the point where I just set up my own Akkoma instance on my server.
Peertube...oof that took awhile. Yeah the problem is the recommendations and search. you really have to get in there and dig through the top layer of shit before you find the diamonds underneath. There are some FANTASTIC tutorial channels on PeerTube for dev stuff, linux, game dev, etc.
Also the other problem is finding a good Peertube instance. Don't go by whatever lists are out there, it's honestly via word of mouth that you'll find the good ones which is sort of a shame. I think that's the main thing that's holding it back. for stuff like Mastodon or even Piefeed/Lemmy what instance you're on doesn't matter all that much as their all incredibly connected and pretty much provide you with the same "front end" so to speak.
Peertube? it's a mess in most cases. Some instances are super duper customized to the instance owners preferences, others are barely searchable, etc so in a way unlike other fediverse stuff Peertube feels a bit disconnected from itself
PeerTube Companion LINK
Try browser extension. It redirects youtube videos to peertube when it detects the same video on both sites.
Nice find, thanks!
Could you post some recommendations?
Gave here: lemmy.today/comment/18705168
Enjoy!
Any recommendations?OP answered in other comment: lemmy.today/comment/18705168
I came here from Reddit after figuring out the platform is beyond saving
Ditto.
the problem with this place is it’s not user-friendly. and the posts/comments are too nerdy/niche for most people. my lemmy frontpage is like 50% linux nonsense. ordinary people dont’ know what linux is.
I see those posts all the time and even I’m not totally sure
if it’s less niche it will be flooded with ragebait and covert ads and such. better it stays a bit more niche. that’s why i’m fine with it being a little bit more nerdy than other mainstream platforms.
My problem is less the nerdy and niche stuff. Because there’s a lot of communities and you can subscribe to what you like.
My problem is more how there’s a lot of debate lords, arseholes, and I’m the smartest in the world types.
But I guess that’s the case on all social media. Really shits on what’s otherwise a nice experience here tho.
But someone has to be the smarted in the world, who are you to say it isn't me? /s
Are you saying that I am NOT the smartest person in the world?! That is news to me!
That’s because I am the smartest person in the world!
Eh, I managed to claim the dumbest in the world title without much trouble, don’t see what’s the fuss
Ordinary people know what Linux is, they just don’t care about. So the effect is the pretty much the same, but for different reasons.
Ive been here over a year and I still don’t know wtf is going on. I don’t know what aussie.zone is, I don’t know what “local” is versus “all”, I don’t know what “all” includes and why it changes. I don’t know how to find new subs except accidentally on “all”, my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.
But, after all that it’s still better than Reddit.
Aussie.zone is the server that you created your account on, think of it like having a yahoo email address. Some people have Gmail, some have outlook or iCloud, some have their own private domain. It really doesn’t matter too much because everyone can talk to everyone else, generally. Local is just every community hosted on Aussie.zone. All is everyone else and every other community in every other server that Aussie.zone is federated to (hasn’t blocked). Discover ability is certainly a problem and I’ve been here for two years and haven’t figured that out except stumbling on new communities on all just like you. You’ve pretty much got a handle on it it seems, I would just suggest a good client like Voyager to make things more intuitive on touchscreens if that’s what you’re looking for.
List of communities is there:
lemmy.zip/communities
ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list
so decentralized, so Internet
Boon and bane
Take an instance that federates with almost everybody and “all” will show you everything available.
Profile picture checks out
Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!
I think I’ll post it to !fedimemes@feddit.uk
You had no idea what you were doing and somehow you still won
Welcome to the Threadiverse! 😁
Once we KICK THE TANKIES out of the THREADIVERSE we can get these numbers really cranking
Why did you people even leave Reddit?
They heard that there were people to their left they hadn’t shat on yet.
Baby girl, the “tankies” (what does that word even mean anymore?) That you’re so scared of, made the god damn platform you’re on!
[Numbers drop in half immediately]
Tankies are among the most active contributors not only to content, but also to the platforms themselves.
Lemmy, the very platform you’re currently on, is made by one.
I’d rather see less left infighting - that will suffice.
What are you talking about??? Tankies don’t contribute anything they just want empty handouts
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5d9b8fd9-d1a8-44ea-8569-ecbea4e099a2.png">
You type like a rentoid.
Data looks great thanks for sharing
I think the active users per half month might be a more useful metric than total accounts because that includes all the dead accounts.
Tf happened on those 2 days?
The crawler probably went down and did not record anything
I’ve only been on Lemmy a few days and i can already tell i like it, but can understand the frustration in figuring out what an instance is, or what a federation is. But i personally have used linux for years, i’m a huge nerd, and i hate the way places like Reddit and facebook are owned by republican idiots who refuse to let people talk poorly about the orange cult leader.
Welcome !
Reddits transformation into a Nazi sympathizing shithole was remarklably swift. Don’t get me wrong, that place was going downhill the second they decided their user base was a product, but it pivoted from generic corporate advertising shithole to fascist friendly nuclear waste pit with remarkable speed. So many micro pud incels willying to volunteer for the brown coats, it’s disgusting.
Damn, reddit turned nazi now? I haven’t really paid attention to it for some time, what happened?
Their heavy “anti violence” push is directed at shutting down dissenters of the current American regime. You can post all the horrific violent things iCE and the admin are doing to your hearts content but if you so much as “hope” an ice agent or Temu Hitler dies, some jackboot licking Nazi sympathizing mod comes to remove your post, because hoping that an evil person dies is apparently the same as violence. I’ve been personally told by one of the admins that hoping someone dies of natural causes is treated as a call to violence, because they’re Nazi sympathizing troglodytes.
They’re eagerly chugging Goebbels cock at the mere thought of an extra dollar, because they’re Nazi sympathizing capitalist scum. The only thing they deserve is a bullet in the Brain and an unmarked grave in a corn field so they can be useful for once in their miserable existence.
Also, they continue to allow /r/conservative despite the fact that it might as well be called /r/fascismrecruitmentanddiscussion. If you make 0 effort from keeping fascists from congregating at your site, congrats you’re a fascist site. Get fucked, I hope Reddit burns to the ground in a fantastic flameout as a lesson to all these scumbags.
Edit: ooh, I just figured out what post actually got my account banned just recently. In response to some Temu Hitler Epstein files distraction theater bullshit I posted the phrase “will someone rid me of this turbulent child rapist?”
Bam, 3 day ban, upheld by Reddit Nazi admins.
Nah thats not a frustration, just your ego settling down. Real frustration is realizing most instances die or have shit registration functions, along with most having unfamiliar names that you’ll also have to remember. Most apps have been a nightmare with this, genuinely just say fuck it and dont even care about this account.
The federation system is cool but not unique, its just what all servers have been doing and now theres a choice being handed to the user as well. It doesn’t really defeat a centralized system.
I always though about something like folding at home but for a social media. Essentially the same thing as a centralized network, but with a scheduled ‘decay’ as main issue for large sites is the actual horde of content. Text based instances could have longer decay time with a refresh basis for visits. With an archival option for regular post, and a trend option for porn-centric instances.
Porn often exploit and subverts most services like this however I think it is a very influential thing that cannot be banned nor freely allowed. However, one can only really generalize so much about porn - but it is a strong way for those in power to subscribe others to their ideals. So noticing trends like the porn hub chart is important. Someone should study 4chan porn trends since 2012 to now. Huge dynamic shift in thread titles alone. All that free fox marketing of the fappening really got their target demographic hooked and the later pepe dogwhistle. Hooboy.
… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit
… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit
EDIT: But it’s Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way
Just joined eviltoast and using voyager. Loving the switch from reddit.
I’m curious what it will look like when school starts
Why would this change anything?
Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all
It doesn’t help that all comments mentioning Lemmy are instantly shadowbanned or removed.
They are not:
Some of them are. Mine was.
I tried in 5 or 6 different subreddits. Different phrasing, sometimes not even outright saying the name, definitely not linking out. None of them made it through.
That’s probably the mod team rather than the site as a whole. /r/RedditAlternatives has regular discussions about Lemmy and the Fediverse, so at least that sub is ok
I have it linked in the subs I mod there. I welcome Reddit relieving me of duty, those subs are being neglected ngl lmao. :)
They definitely lose by missing you!
😘
Sure, but the average reddit-user doesn’t frequent /r/RedditAlternatives unless they’re looking for one.
The average reddit user isn’t indeed looking for an alternative, so they’re unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway
Trust me, I’ve tried several times
Tbh I’m not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.
Depends. I specifically targeted the users saying things like “omg, Reddit is dead. RIP. Where shall we go now?” And “If there were an alternative I’d switch in a heartbeat” or “that’s it, I’m leaving. This was my last straw”. Basically users that genuinely sounded to me like they were looking for something. Not that they ever got to see my response.
Not only that but they’re met with tiring sealioners who demand perfection.
Is there a merch store or sumthing we can buy to advertise this awesome place and help support it?
I’m actually in a state of confusion over the fediverse, reddit, and social media as a whole atm. I loved switching over to Lemmy because of the foss/decentralizing and lower user count at first. If I see a thread with 1500 comments I’m less likely to interact with it, like trying to hold a meaningful conversation at a concert event.
Forums and articles are slowing becoming harder to find for information without going through 6 AI pages repeating the same paragraph in 20 different ways without really telling you anything new, so that’s slowly becoming more of a burden. Reddit is so inundated with mainstream now that even a specific trade community just has terrible trash comments that get upvoted and can even drown out a professionals real informational response (like youtube does a lot) but … at least it’s there I suppose.
Lemmy… well yes this space is “nerdy”, but there’s very few specific nerds. by that I mean like the true nerd definition of someone so into this one niche thing that they completely lose all touch with social ques because their area came up in conversation and they are salivating to talk about it. I just recently got told in the most popular pc build community here that they never really bothered looking at memory speed… I was flabbergasted.
so idk what I would like to see Lemmy become or the future of these types of sites in general. I forced myself to make that post on the pc build community because I was going through the process and maybe it would help someone out in the future and a little socializing while going through a project seems interesting. But, I have so many other posts I think about and just don’t do because it’s going to be either generic responses or me talking into the void with putting a lot of work into collecting all the data I have and formatting it/etc. Time is always limited, so it’s a battle over priorities and responsibilities.
So you’re saying there’s a slim chance the underdog can stick around & possibly become what Reddit was meant to be?
& The handful of those of us that make memes for this lost creature should continue to do so?
I always prefer the underdog. Reddit even unbanned me & I’m like “nope, you don’t get to do that. I found a better friend that appreciates me in a more healthy way”
Graphs don’t show the people who moved from “Reddit” to “Outside”.
Also, any decline in the fediverse could also be being fed up with all the overwhelming political doomer posts and also decide to change their platform to “Going Outside”.
So a decline can still be overall positive for human socialization, even if it might not be the best for the fediverse.
Edit: typo