How many millions of users does it have? How many posts? How active are they?
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 that’s fine (if not preferable)
I’ve never seen nsfw stuff on Lemmy actually, neither did I see star trek
neither did I see star trek
I don’t believe you.
neither did I see star trek
Lucky you
I find it’s 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
This active
3 active
What difference does it even make?
I was just curious man, didn’t know where to look, people here helped me already so, thanks to them once more
Feels right at home again, doesn’t it? /S I’m hoping it picks up more traffic too.
Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?
“Millions of users” is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small – assuming you’re interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active “Lemmy” is is entirely dependent on which topics you’re 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.
Hasn’t Lemmy sort of already accomplished that both with federated servers and communities?
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.
Active enough 🤷♂️
The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012
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.
I would have, but they asked in millions and I was being cheeky.
I don’t find it pathetic, I’m quite happy with it. Sure, I’d be happy to get more but in no rush.
The answer is (currently) ~42k monthly active users.
Interesting. Active users in decline, posts and comments on the up.
School breaks probably have an impact
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, it’s better than bigger forums because you don’t have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.
I can usually, on bad days when I’m not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That’s about the sweet spot, imo.
I’m 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 I’d say it’s 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 haven’t saved the URL and don’t know it off the top of my head.
Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There’s a reason why old forums’ only sorting method was thread bumping.
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Reddit is very quiet lately, probably due to school breaks
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Oh yeah definitely
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 it’s not in the dining room where customers can see me.
If you’ve 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.
I’m 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 you’re mainly a passive consumer of content.
Though I’ve never been active in “large” subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I don’t know what I’m missing.
Not sure, but compared to about a year ago, it seems more active.
According to the fedidb, it’s about the same.
