The worse two things to happen to lemmy when the reddit api migration happened is people created clones of their subreddits multiple times on different instances but when it didn't take off immediately they just abandoned it. The second was bot posting no one is going to engage when op is not real and thus you have zombie communities with zero comments. So it looks like a ghost town instead of a letting grow organically.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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you can see all the numbers in sites like https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy its definitelly better than first time I stumble upon lemmy
It's about 50k active users. Communities are generally less important than instances.
Oh wow, if thats the case then I have overestimated the numbers by alot. Seems like we're still in the nichest of the niche
Mastodon is the biggest fediverse platform and that has just short of 900k MAU (monthly active users) with around 8M registered users.
In terms of non activity pub but federated protocols, matrix is probably the biggest with a user count in the hundreds of millions. They also market very well to goverments and the public sector tho so they get lots of users from massive deployments with millions of users on one server.
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You can be +1. ;)
It's much bigger than it used to be, and is relatively stable now.
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Can you ELI5 for me why Instances are more important than communities?
Doesn't matter as much for lemm.ee as it's more of a utility than an instance, but I see instances more like traditional "subreddits" and comms within them as "hashtags" and categories. Hexbear's "games" comm is very different from Lemmy.mls, as an example.
So, more like servers on discord?
Yep! Great example.
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MAUs are users that post or comment right? Or does voting also make you a MAU?
The number is correct according to the existing crawlers. Also i wonder if lemmy users are slightly more active on average than reddit users.
For more numbers https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
I know I engage way more on lemmy than I ever did on reddit. I think I posted more on here in the first year then I did the whole 11 years on reddit. Lemmy reminds me more of the old forum days than reddit or Digg. I wish lemmy would have followed the forum model more with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme like how the star trek instance does it vs everyone trying to be an mini reddit. Also I know it's ironic me saying that with my account being from .world
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Unsure on the specifics of how MAU is decided.
As far as I know, from when this was discussed after the first Reddit exodus, only commenting and posting makes you an active user. So the number is somewhat deceivingly small, as the vast majority on platforms like this are lurkers who maybe post/comment every once in a while at most.
Ah, gotcha.
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