Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?
Very sable, great content on my feed
FediDB says Lemmy is steady. There are some interesting stats in there. There are about 44k monthly active users, which has been true for a while, and there was a huge influx of new instances shortly after Reddit Day, but most of them dropped off and the number of users per instance has been steadily climbing and the total active instances steadily falling.
Looks all good to me.
I am happy here. Am not eventemptedd to open reddit anymore. No ads, better clients, friendlier community. Great.
It still lists feddit.de as growing. Which is not true. The dns entries expired, the instance is dead for most intents and purposes…
Lang lebe feddit.org!
Peak Lemmy users happened, it was in the later part of last year as a result of the reddit API controversy. No one expected that to stay, and users slowly waned after this as expected.
I’d say we’re in a maintenance phase at the moment. Active users is somewhat steady, posts and comments are somewhat steady. There are around 45k active users, but note that Lemmy counts this different than other sites. For later Lemmy versions, you need to comment, post, or vote to be considered. Lurkers that don’t vote (whether logged in or not) are not counted at all.
Growing more will probably happen after some other event to dive people away from reddit.
Other than reddit going for subscription or complete outage over some time I am not sure any event will cause another influx. A lot of people didn’t care about the whole API drama, since they either never knew about 3rd party apps or just went back the official app. The official app might slowly get worse and worse but if it happens slow enough, these kind of users won’t care.
There probably will be something. We may not be able to predict it. But reddit will pull a Digg or a Twitter at some point and people will be looking for alternatives. Then we get another surge of users.
Alternatively, one of the federated Lemmy alternatives (Sublinks, Mbin, Piefed) might hit the right audience and push up the platform userbase.
Wait, you didnt know? Servers shut down in 4 days.
What is the current state of Lemmy?
After reddit flood, Florida. Maybe Virginia.
Its good, we got a good sized userbase and the software is getting better and better. We will grow as the fediverse grows.
Lemmy has been stable on users since the Reddit Exodus, which is probably good because I don’t see Lemmy in its current form able to handle growth.
Onboarding new users is a hassle unless those users know someone already on Lemmy to act as a guide. This is just going to push more people to default instances.
I think that the developers need to shift to a more distributed method of developing an open source project, including stakeholder input on what to develop next.
People complain about moderation, but I feel like a decent problem had been in distributing ownership of instances across several people and developing policy from that.
If Lemmy were to grow, it would likely grow as a fork.
ogranik af
It’s stable and largely fun, especially more active but niche communities.
I think there is an alarmingly high number of users with a very large amount of heavily downvoted bad takes… usually from specific homeservers but not always. I’ve seen a whole lot more blatantly terrible attitudes compared to reddit.
The API documentation is extremely bad, especially for non-JS devs, and the developers defend it saying there’s nothing wrong and no plans to change it. People are always getting confused about how to use it to get the information they want and often never find any good help.
I am not hopeful that it will grow positively.
Slowly growing
A better question is… Is Lemmy better than reddit in some way so it’s worth for users to switch to it?
I like that it’s decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.
moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.
Or worse. Censorship and childish content warnings are rife. At least it’s more transparent with built in mod logs but I wish there was at least some innovation beyond being just a federated reddit clone. Still nobody knows what an upvote means, same as reddit.
Moderation was always mostly in the user’s hands, so it makes sense that it didn’t change.
In what way was it in users hands? It’s always been in the hands of the creator of the sub/comm.
I have news for you xD the creator of the sub/community is a normal user. You can create your own community and run it however you want, even democratically or whatever.
Okay I did that, now what? There’s nobody there.
It’s definitely slowed down, but that’s fine, let it grow naturally. Personally I sometimes get put off because I end up seeing the same posts repeated across different instances so it can be harder to find content, but I also love the smaller community.
I wish that the same post on different instances would just be collapsed to one in the UI
Yeah that would make a huge difference
its grow enough that reddits shitty app annoy me a week ago and I haven’t looked back
I walked away from reddit after Alien Blue had to get pulled, and haven’t looked back.
There are a few niche areas Lemmy hasn’t had a chance to build a community yet - AskHistorians comes to mind - that I miss, but time will hopefully solve that.
