Welp. I sure didn't win that betting pool.
I'm gonna feel really silly if anyone finds out my best guess was like, maybe, 1500.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Everyone wishing for more users might be wishing on a cursed monkey paw. I don’t know what the sweet spot number of active users is — I want more so we can have contributors to niche communities — but there’s a tipping point. You want your favorite bar/restaurant/message boards to be popular but not too popular.
I still can’t believe we haven’t seen a @whitehouse.gov.social or whatever spring up. Why in the world would they not want to control their social media presence in house? Why allow Twitter that luxury?
If they went cold turkey on Twitter and set up @[email protected] the posts would still end up on Twitter because people would cross post them (just like we see Twitter posts on Masto or lemmy).
At least some EU governments have started making their own accounts.
I emailed my region’s national weather service and asked that they join Mastodon and the meteorologist said they wanted to but there’s an approval process for communications and it takes awhile to add new services.
I’m basically completely off X (and haven’t had a Facebook account for years) but during a recent storm, I made a new Twitter account that just follows local government accounts. It’s annoying that the fastest way to find out about flooded roads and stuff is X and I really hope that changes soon.
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Personally I think it's more important to break big-tech's hold on online communication. Every single user who leaves a centralized platform to join the Fediverse is a win in my books! Another thing is that we never had a mainstream decentralized, nonprofit and non-algorithmic social network before afaik, I'm actually not sure if the climate will evolve like it did with the other networks.
Honestly, I’m scared of what will come of it. Lemmy is fragile and the lessons of yesteryear don’t apply thanks to AI and evolving spam methods. That said, I’m still cautiously optimistic about the future of lemmy.
I guess I just don't have faith in the majority's conversation. Once you have a lot of dumb people, all the content starts devolving. Especially the comments.
As a dumb myself, it's a difficult problem that I don't have an answer to.
But maybe it's a net positive. Don't spend all day on one platform. And the dumb jokes are nice for being less serious all the time. As long as there is still good conversation
Bro, we've had like 3 dozen memes at the top about Taylor Swift's airplane just in the last week. We are not exactly avoiding what I just complained about. So I guess it'll be okay
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Like most of us, I'd love to see more active users. But the limited quantity is of much better quality here. Reddit is a cesspool of cliques and groupthink.
I've always been a lurker, don't talk much even un real life. But here I've been trying to be active. Even if it with something not relevant such as this comment right here
It's appreciated! It can take a while for folks to find us and get comfortable. Adding more comments helps.
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I can't use the "there are dozens of us" joke anymore??
Soon we might even outnumber the Chinese and Israeli funded bots.
The porn bots have far and away the most rapidly growing ranks in the lemmyverse, for the record.
I blocked an ai porn community and that one little girl fetish community and now porn doesn't even show up on the first 5 or 6 pages of the instance I'm using. Whoever is operating the porn bots needs to expand their tastes, start sending the snu snu images.
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how many of them are dummy accounts or bots?
I'm not real
Where they at tho?
We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.
I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀
Lemmy is only 4% of the fediverse by user %. Most of the fediverse is Mastodon.
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As per the website there are around 900 active ~~users~~ servers on lemmy I recently joined the fediverse both lemmy and mastodon and tbh lemmy is more active. Mastodon is just an echo chamber only bots are reposting from reddit and twitter.
I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.
Yeah my bad. Just checked again MAU are ~38k
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Isn't the stat that like 95% of users only lurk? You're measuring this by posters, not users, if you're going by who you see post and comment.
They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
Wait what's Misskey?
It’s a Mastodon type microblogging service but I think I read it’s popular in Japan and South Korea.
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The comparison of users to active monthly users sounds about right .... 10 million users with about 1 million active monthly users
The usual ratio of lurkers to creators .. 10 to 1 ... the majority of everyone just browses no matter which platform it is ... it's the same in any social circle since the dawn of time ... there's only a small group of creators and everyone else just like to watch / read / listen
Not everyone is interesting enough to have stuff worth posting.
That's what everyone would like us to believe. Everyone has a unique story and background and to me they are all interesting.
It's just that we are all conditioned to think that we are not worthy enough to share our stories. If we believe we aren't worthy ... then we are not. But the opposite is also true, if we believe we are good enough and that our stories are worthy, then they take on a life of their own and become important.
I always enjoy quoting George Carlin because he was a proponent of the power of belief ... society and the individuals in that society believe whatever they want to believe
"I have as much power as the pope ... I just don't have as many people who believe it" - George Carlin
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