How active is Lemmy now?
from OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to fediverse@lemmy.world on 03 Jan 14:26
https://discuss.online/post/14926516
from OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to fediverse@lemmy.world on 03 Jan 14:26
https://discuss.online/post/14926516
How many millions of users does it have? How many posts? How active are they?
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https://fedidb.org/
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
The answer is (currently) ~42k monthly active users.
Indeed: lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Interesting. Active users in decline, posts and comments on the up.
School breaks probably have an impact
Active enough đ¤ˇââď¸
fedidb.org/software/lemmy
About 0.04 million monthly active users
Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.
40k users is huge. Remember, lemmy is not profit driven. We donât need to grow at all costs, we can grow naturally and sustainably.
âŚI kinda like it right now. Some communities of less than a 1000 have much more human responses. It nice. And not just from one server.
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
A Lemmy community with 100 active members is more likely to be 100 active humans than a subreddit with 10,000 members is, based on the last time I went to Reddit: it was so, so clear that everything was either ChatGPT, or a repost of shit even I had already seen, or was just otherwise obviously not an authentic human sharing something interesting.
So yeah, not entirely surprising.
It might also be that we were some of the prolific posters on reddit. I heard somewhere that the top couple percent of posters on reddit used to make a majority of the new posts. And the rest lurk
Thatâs probably true, though Iâm not sure who has ever actually made a legitimate determination since youâd have to remove the non-humans from the numbers first and, well, Reddit isnât going to tank their MAU numbers by ever releasing that kind of stat.
Itâs also not helped once you hit a certain size and the nature of scale takes over and the level of toxicity goes up: even in small groups, when a new person shows up and asks the same question for the 20th time, they start taking shit for it. If youâre in a BIG group, it turns into a giant dogpile, and people stop asking questions because who the hell likes that kind of response, so you end up with a lot of people who are subscribed to something, but none of whom actually contribute at all.
The density of quality users and interactions on Lemmy nowadays reminds me of Redditâs earlier days
Weâre actually at about 43k
43.001k! I just joined with my own instance in my over engineered lab đ§Ş
Welcome!
40000 is enough to be a functioning social media. most fediverse softwares donât have that much. Sure, it is not enough to have discussions over non mainstream stuff, but there are still enough people for a variety of topics.
I would have, but they asked in millions and I was being cheeky.
I donât find it pathetic, Iâm quite happy with it. Sure, Iâd be happy to get more but in no rush.
Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?
âMillions of usersâ is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small â assuming youâre interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active âLemmyâ is is entirely dependent on which topics youâre interested in.
There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don't get too large.
Hasnât Lemmy sort of already accomplished that both with federated servers and communities?
yes, the only benefit more users would have is allowing niche games/topics to have flourishing communities within it.
No. Federation means I'm on a mbin serner and still interacting with lemmy. If a community goes big there is no way to enforce who goes to which split.
Not sure, but compared to about a year ago, it seems more active.
It feels most active the month after June 12, 2023. Then it kinda got quieter
According to the fedidb, itâs about the same.
So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere
So do I!
These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick. A ranking of âuser-recognitionâ would be fun. Though obviously impractical.
We all know what that list would look like: https://feddit.org/post/3602869
TLDR version:
<img alt="img" src="https://i.imgflip.com/964c6i.jpg">
Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didnât know of them before this week. Iâve seen your username far more, for example.
True true. I think Lemmy.ml tends to be more insular than most instances though? e.g. the default sort is Local rather than All. Like basically for people who already had most of their Fediverse needs met, there was less need to join communities across the wider range?
I donât know enough to say if itâs more insular or not, I donât know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but weâre definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.
You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really donât know.
Well it is one of the top 10 instances, and defederated from almost no other instances, so it definitely is rather well-known:-).
I wonder that too. I know I have seen yours, but not enough to dislike you if that means anything lol.
I recognize yours
Iâll make sure to remember your name moving forward. Your current ranking: Awesome
I do
Yeah, but youâre like the community directory, you know everything đ
First time I hear this ha ha đ
These sort of comments make me wonder who is reading usernames. I barely ever look because it doesnât matter except in reply threads.
I usually passively recognize them. Even more if there is an avatar
I originally found it surprising how often you run into the same names, feels a lot more small town than reddit in that way.
To be fair, that happens on Reddit as well.
Heyo!
Youâre one of us too!
Same
Itâs a feature, Iâm gonna try to remember peopleâs names more
Some clients (at least Connect and Voyager on Android) have a user tagging feature, so Iâve been tagging people I see over and over or trolls, or whatever. Itâs really handy to start to easily see whoâs around and posting.
I am seeing slow and steady growth in the areas I follow.
Do you mean just Lemmy, or do you also want users from mbin or others fediverse instances that can access lemmy discussions?
713 monthly active users for Mbin : mbin.fediverse.observer/stats
135 for Piefed: piefed.fediverse.observer/stats
There are dozens of us - not quite a dozen dozen, but at least multiple dozens! (on PieFed) :-P
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Happy cake day
If you care about American politics and being outraged at every and any thing thrown at you during the day, it is active enough. However you are SOL if are curious about any other topic that does not involve narcissistically talking about yourself.
Assuming you are invested enough to find or create a community for a topic you care about, be prepared to be talking to yourself for a long time and consider yourself lucky if you manage to get 2 other people commenting on it.
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Feels like itâs just memes and specifically war and American politics
The only actually different communities I found were about ancient times and history posts (thank you for that by the way)
The big three are:
There are a couple dozen people who keep a smaller community alive (like PugJesus on history, anon6789 on owls, JohnnyEnzyme on euro graphic novels, LaurenceWolse on b movies, Nexius Lobster on traditional art, etc); occasionally someone takes over a community and starts posting regularly, and occasionally someone burns out and the community dies.
Yah I wanna contribute alongside pugjesus
go for it, fam! Yeah, I think itâs a lot more fun to be posting when someone else is already posting there. (instead of just posting by yourself.)
I made a meme about this a while ago on !fedimemes@feddit.uk
Definitely still relevant
Please do so, itâs terribly lonely being the only poster some weeks DX
this is actually why meme communities I block over time (new ones come up though like constatnly). I like to peruse all looking for interesting things. unfortunately news and politics are to important for me to clear out and I mean. who wants to clear out tech :)
Fwiw PieFed (which is a Lemmy alternative that isn't quite ready for mainstream usage yet, but is nonetheless coming along nicely:-) has Categories of Communities - e.g. https://piefed.social/topic/news - so that at a touch of a button you can switch to see a feed dedicated to that, or some other, topic.
Then see also those sub-topic links at the top allowing further filtering to your more specific desires, like "US Politics", "World", "RSS Feeds", etc. Using this, you can have your cake (e.g. all the memes, yes I mean ALL of them!!! đ) and eat it too (i.e. they politely go away whenever you want them too:-P).
That's not really possible in Lemmy itself just yet (except probably in some apps but I don't use those so not sure which ones) unless you create multiple alt accounts and set up subscriptions for each one tailored to a specific interest type.
Which wrapping back around to the OP, helps explain why we are far less active than those Fediverse activity stats show - e.g. I personally am 3 of those Monthly Active Users. Not that that's bad, just saying that they are known to be inaccurate.
this is very interesting and definately has some features I want. mbin/lemmy have future plans to integrate with mastadon and such I believe. do you know where piefed stands on that?
No but it's pretty early in development (and yet amazingly well developed for that) as a Lemmy alternative, and so I doubt there are plans to expand beyond that like to Mastodon or Friendica, at least until it becomes more fully featured regarding its Lemmy functionality. e.g. user tagging like @openstars@piefed.social is not implemented yet. It does already have hashtag support though:-). Certain features are just amazingly well done, while more basic and foundational features are needing to catch up. Thus it is something to watch with close interest, as well as a few of us with early adopter mindsets to test out even as a daily driver.:-)
yeah I mean I started on kbin as despite complaints on how he did things he seemed to be making something I liked better and when it blew up I went to mbin but I notice the features do not move as quickly as when earnest was in the mix. so im already not on lemmy. will give it a try.
I got my start on Kbin.social as well - he was ambitious, that's for sure, but despite all the people clamoring that they could do things faster and better, that dream doesn't look to me like it has materialized? Although Mbin is also good as it is, if you like the interface and also want the interconnection with Mastodon.
I do see features being added to PieFed over time, and hold out high hopes for it.
Sublinks also looks promising, though it was paused for basically a year due to its founder having a baby.
yeah as far as I know mbin does not yet allow the connection with mastodon. I thought it had but looked it up and it seemed to be a soon type of thing.
Omg I thought that was like it's whole deal even!? đđ˛
Really ? I thought the microblogging part of Mbin could connect to Mastodon very easily
There is the micorblog but I was looking up how to look and and follow mastadon accounts and the best i could find is coming soon. I mean the blog area is fine but I see no way of really setting it up with mastadon.
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de and @melroy@kbin.melroy.org , can you maybe help?
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com maybe too
yep, its complete possible, though i dont use it for very many people.. mostly george tekei
ex: <img alt="." src="https://cdn.catsweat.com/0a/13/0a13c12a4bc409c39c7c8be134d321e7d6591b588f49e7ffcb7b0bc4d5d6bc39.png">
Thanks!
Hi there mbin dev here. The interaction with mastodon is possible: you can follow people, you can see posts from people from mastodon (just in the "microblog" tab, not the "threads" tab), but it has not been the main focus since mbin was created and has therefore not made huge progress. We have plans to improve the microblog side of things (or at least I have), but there were just so many behind the scene problems with the code that needed fixing (and still need improvements) so we focused more on that.
I will not promise anything, but I want to have threads and microblogs in the same list and I am thinking of adding a "timeline" tab that works more like the microblog style that people know. However development has not started on that, yet and we therefore do not have a release with which this is expected or even an ETA.
thanks. yeah. I think I just misunderstood a thread from mbin meta where I thought it was not possible. this has helped me a lot.
Sorry what you do mean? Mbin has full Mastodon support. You can look-up users and toots. You can follow people on Mastodon from a Mbin instance.
its sorta what I said from another part of the thread:
Thanks folks. You know I think I was confused from this https://moist.catsweat.com/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/621832/Very-basic-noob-question-magazines-v-microblog#comments thread where I thought the comment about separate being it can't be done but it just means it does not go into the feed I think.
you can do it. you just need to open the magnifying glass for Search and paste in the address for the mastodon account.. same as subbing to a remote magazine.
if you search for someone youre already following, or click 'following' under your profile and click the remote user you will see their posts.
here is George Tekei's feed who is on universeodon
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@originalucifer
@OmegaLemmy @rglullis @Sergio @OpenStars @openstars
Thanks folks. You know I think I was confused from this https://moist.catsweat.com/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/621832/Very-basic-noob-question-magazines-v-microblog#comments thread where I thought the comment about seperate being it can't be done but it just means it does not go into the feed I think.
Yeah that meant only that we have two different "tabs" or "areas" for the thread side (lemmy) and the microblog side (mastodon)
you can follow users on mastodon on mbin.
here is a screen of me searching for and following a mastodon account: <img alt="." src="https://cdn.catsweat.com/56/42/56429207459825304ff647b82009849ab306ceaf951d69ac9a087741874dcd7e.png">
do you know if there is a way to get the list of topics in a way to choose more topics after the start? I clicked on a fair amount and figured I would just hit go and add more later but I can't seem to get the checkboxes. Just the list of topics for perusing.
Well I know a way but you won't like it. Actually two ways.
The first is to start your own PieFed server instance. The second is to message an existing person who admins one to add it. Whenever I add new communities, like !AskUSA@discuss.online, it just goes under the generic Home -> Communities, while in comparison !AskLemmy@Lemmy.World goes underneath Home -> Topics -> Chilling and so that's where AskUSA should have gone as well.
Perhaps in the future, whoever brings in a community could make a suggestion as to which Topic areas it should lie underneath, but PieFed is fairly early in its development and thus kind of "polish" is still being added. But for now, it's something that is predefined by whoever admins the instance.
The good news is that the devs & admins are EXTREMELY responsive, both in speed and concern for what they are making. Like, if you ask for it, there's a very good chance its prioritization would be increased over other things to get it working faster. Here's an example post of mine showing such conversation: https://piefed.social/post/301249.
Oh and perhaps I misunderstood you - something like a text listing of them should be available within the code itself, if that's what you meant? Or there's https://piefed.social/topics - is that what you mean? I just noticed that the way to access this list changed just today or yesterday I think - this page used to exist but it was also a drop down list as well (that never worked right in my desktop browser, though did on a mobile), so if it is being difficult lately that is likely why:-).
Though beware if you are considering making PieFed your daily driver: it helps if you know your way around Lemmy and have a backup account for when you can't get things done using PieFed. Searching for instance is not great, so trying to find a post I usually do with Lemmy rather than PieFed. Another is that Notifications are more than a little bit broken: e.g. your very comment reply to me here I had an extremely difficult time trying to find - I read through every comment on this thread before finding yours in fact. The reasons this can happen are many and varied: posts that later get removed still remain in your Notifications area, as do users from instances that you have blocked, and if a comment is buried too deeply in the chain in a post then you'll need to click the Continue thread button, except you won't know which one of those to click in the first place, also a comment can be auto-collapsed or even hidden, frustratingly even if it was not at the time you replied but then that happened later then you similarly to these other situations won't be taken right to it when you click the notification. Honestly sometimes I'll go to Lemmy, visit the post, and search for my name and see all the people who replied to me, then walk up the chain to see some text to search for, then switch back to PieFed to actually do the reply... So anyway: TLDR: PieFed is quite interesting, and I do use it for my daily driver, but it can also be quite frustrating until some of these more foundational issues are fixed.
That said, PieFed *already* can do more than Lemmy, in so many ways. For one, I can have it send me a notification upon every single new post in a community or my choosing, like !tenforward@lemmy.world and !
AskUSA@discuss.online, and for another, if I wanted I could have it cease sending me notifications for a comment that I made if people decide to relentlessly troll me for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards (this is no mere hypothetical situation: both hexbear and Lemmygrad have done this exact thing to me). I can also view a post without having to read any comments at all from users posting from an instance of my own choosing - instance blocking is horrible misnamed on Lemmy and does next to nothing along those lines, while defederation is dependent upon an admin, except that PieFed puts that ability to choose into the hands of its users. That alone made me want to choose it, but everything else is does is great too! Caveat: so long as I can fall back onto Lemmy when I need to.
Also PieFed has next to no moderation tools, so there's a lot that is still coming.:-) I am definitely here for it!:-)
Yeah I don't think you quite got me. When you first start you choose topics you like and I would like to be able to go back and select more or deselect ones I previously selected. I really like what they seem to be trying to do but it is limited. You can join communities but not block them or block topics. This would be huge for me because I have no interest in sports so I block all sports communities but if I could block sports as a topic that would be really useful. I do like that they have the keyword thing. Especially short term. Sometimes something happens in the news and its like you don't want the clutter from the barrage of articles.
I think that initial sign-up even if it mentioned that it was for topic areas, was *actually* joining you to communities? (Bc the actual "Topic" areas seems to be invariable) I mean, based on those Topic areas that you selected, it Joined you to Communities that will fill up your All feed.
You can now "leave" a community at any time, and while this doesn't seem to block it from showing up in the Topic areas list - more's the pity, bc it *really* should - it at least stops it from showing up in the All feed. And ofc you can (re-)join other Communities as well.
So as we are seeing, things tend to work slightly differently than Lemmy.:-) What I find helpful is how my entire "workflow" is different on it: since Lemmy doesn't even offer Notifications for posts from communities, for those where there are only like 0-3 posts per day, I prefer receiving those Notifications rather than have to "find" the communities as I would have done in Lemmy. Like, this works much better than hoping that they show up in a Feed somewhere, especially when a community is small like !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world. Then again, this would work better for someone who checks things daily, although... there is a "Mark all as read" button as well.
On Lemmy I used to browse All rather than Subscribed, but on PieFed I usually use a combination of Notifications and rarely browsing All or like when I *want* a concentration of news stories (ahem, even from communities that I've "Left" even:-), then that is available as well. This whole aspect of PieFed really works much better for me overall, though indeed it took quite some getting used to it at first to discover what was possible and have to re-think my workflow. I hope this description helps you think through what may work best for you, or perhaps you'll just copy this.:-)
Mbin already integrates with Mastodon.
I got a few responses and worked it out.
!fedigrow@lemm.ee help active posters to discuss common issues
!newcommunities@lemmy.world can help to find communities
The new communities part was a good recommendation actually, but the rest Iâm not interested in
I found two new communities I am going to contribute to, so thanks
Happy to help
Congratulations. You are bringing your dozen communities that only survive due to your incessant work, which kind of exemplifies my point: Lemmy has maybe a handful of communities outside of the politics/meta-fediverse topics.
I donât post on !movies@lemm.ee that much anymore, itâs usually other posters now. Same for patientgamers, parenting and casualconversation
I never post on !foodporn
showsandmovies we are now 2.
I started posting on !AskUSA@discuss.online recently, now itâs mostly other people too
Thatâs already a much different statement than
I donât understand why you want to exaggerate the situation, while there are clearly other communities than American politics
For people reading this: lemmyverse.net/communities
You want to use the extreme end of the distribution curve and make the argument that it is close to the median case. It is not.
There are 44k monthly active users on this platform.
According to you, they only talk about American politics.
According to me, they also talk about other topics.
Another thread I open yesterday, 55 comments: sopuli.xyz/post/21023787
Iâm providing examples and numbers to back up my claims, you use incorrect hyperboles.
The number of discussions about American politics are orders of magnitude higher than discussions about any of âother topicsâ. This is more than enough to justify the use of hyperbole.
Nobody is denying that discussions over American politics are very active.
Thankfully, those communities can be blocked.
On top of that, !asklemmy@lemmy.world added a new rule against US politics questions, so new questions are about anything else.
Random post from yesterday, 158 comments feddit.org/post/6407464
Anyone saying that itâs even a little bit close to an adequate level for anything other than politics and star trek are lying to themselves.
Donât forget to mention Linux. Literally eveywhere.
I dunno, seems pretty good for queer spaces and shitposting, but I guess .world doesnât know much about either.
I block politics, news and star trek.
Then the rest of the content is visible
The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.
Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.
That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, itâs better than bigger forums because you donât have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.
I can usually, on bad days when Iâm not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. Thatâs about the sweet spot, imo.
Iâm an active user who post and comment regularly, and I would say that the experience is very similar to Reddit. Except for less adds and smaller numbers on the main/all page. The experience is probably very different if youâre mainly a passive consumer of content.
Though Iâve never been active in âlargeâ subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I donât know what Iâm missing.
The main deficiency is niche and hobby communities, theyâre mostly empty or missing on Lemmy.
This is about right. Its a great general interest thing and you have some really great folks but you don't have a ton of pathfinder people talking about pathfinder or sto people talking about sto on an sto sub, etc. so we have a general gaming community that is pretty active but if you want to know day to day whats happening with a particular game. not so much.
You have ads? Where do you see them? Not sure if Iâm being ignorant and not recognizing them or did something right that made me not see them
Ok, I rephrase. Zero ads on Lemmy. đ
Some Lemmy phone apps have ads.
The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012
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âDo you know about our lord and savior, Linux? Let me tell you about itâŚâ
have you heard of plan 9 and 9 front? What about gnu/Hurd?
Ooh gnu/Hurd, I heard that was coming out soon.
Well actually we use Arch btw...
Also, technically...
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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No, Richard, itâs âLinuxâ, not âGNU/Linuxâ. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS â more on this later). He named it âLinuxâ with a little help from his friends. Why doesnât he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff â including the software I wrote using GCC â and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You donât want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title âGNU/Linuxâ (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldnât the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know youâve heard this one before. Get used to it. Youâll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isnât more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isnât perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, Iâd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldnât be fighting among ourselves over naming other peopleâs software. But what the heck, Iâm in a bad mood now. I think Iâm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldnât you and everyone refer to GCC as âthe Linux compilerâ? Or at least, âLinux GCCâ? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linuxâ huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and donât be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
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I use Ubuntu. Wtf are you dorks gonna do about it?
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Nah our lord and savior is Linus Torvalds and hes here to offer you Linux as his gift from the gods :3
The economics of a social platform relies on growth over time and Lemmy is growing at the perfect pace because itâs not a single entity but a collaborative entity.
Once bigger federations break through to the mainstream market youâll see the relevance of smaller federations growing along with it as it becomes a âbiggerâ ecosystem
Mentioned in the comment section below what is necessary for community growth and it doesnât require millions, only a few hundred active members.
Iâm practically a fixture on Lemmy, and I view everything sorted by newest comments so I see only new posts and posts actively being participated in through replies and Iâd say itâs only slightly less active than Reddit appearance wise. Surely there is less things being posted over all, but I can just refresh the page every few seconds and get entirely new posts almost every single time, barring a few hours in the middle of the week.
I know that someone has a statistic site for Lemmy that could actually show you exactly what you wanna know, but I havenât saved the URL and donât know it off the top of my head.
Reddit is very quiet lately, probably due to school breaks
The dips I see on Lemmy are probably from people actually working. I at least have a job where nobody cares if I use my phone because I can still work while fucking around on it, so long as itâs not in the dining room where customers can see me.
If youâve got time to lean you got time to clean.
Now the trick is to make sure you lean with a cloth or a broom in your hand. That way everyone thinks you are cleaning.
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Oh yeah definitely
Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. Thereâs a reason why old forumsâ only sorting method was thread bumping.
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There are dozens of us?
Maybe even several dozens
Dozens!
At least a dozen right?
There are dozens of @Blaze@feddit.org.
I plead guilty
Thereâs enough shit posts to keep most people happy.
Amen
its 10x the useless circle jerk upvote farming of reddit with 1/n the user base
What difference does it even make?
I was just curious man, didnât know where to look, people here helped me already so, thanks to them once more
Feels right at home again, doesnât it? /S Iâm hoping it picks up more traffic too.
All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so
I run into a lot of the same names, but I think thatâs fine (if not preferable)
Iâve never seen nsfw stuff on Lemmy actually, neither did I see star trek
Lucky you
I donât believe you.
NSFW is probably a matter of instance and preferences (not sure if filtering NSFW might be enabled by default)
But star trek? What the hell? That seems to be one of the largest communities on the entire platform, and with high quality content and lots of interaction, how did you not see it? Is your instance defederated or something?
I used to see non-stop NSFW stuff about a year ago, but it seems better now.
I find itâs about 5 pages in, sometimes as little as three depending on whether or not someone on lemmynsfw started a new community and self-spammed it.
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The active user base is trending slightly downward as a few instances have shut down recently but the amount of registered users is steadily increasing so those trends will reverse as the largest barrier to entry is just knowing about Lemmy and creating an account.
Users: 467k
MAU: 42k
Posts: 10.8m
3 active
This active
đââď¸ present
Canât give precise numbers, but at least that I can notice, despite greatly filtering what I check, thereâs enough stuff to make running out of stuff to check rather unlikely. Besides, as I started using RSS feeds a lot recently, mainly for federated platforms (not just Lemmy ones), and the reader I use can hide posts marked as read, itâs being a struggle to lower the number of posts to read in comparison to the sum of posts automatically pulled during the set up of each link.
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats