This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!
Hope this also feeds the growth of Mastodon as well. We need good FOSS alternatives to these corporate controlled social networks.
I might try Mastodon now that I found and fell in love with Lemmy, are there any good clients for Android?
Personally I like Tusky.
Love to see the fediverse grow. We don’t deserve these devs!
Awesome! There’s a pretty good dispersion as well.
Having recently given Lemmy (via the Jerboa app) & kbin (via just their web app – since that’s all there is) a test drive…
Lemmy is okay, but the app is extremely glitchy right now, throwing constant “unable to convert to JSON” errors. (I’m copying this comment before I hit submit, because I’ve already lost one lengthy comment due to those errors) FOLLOW-UP EDIT: I was never able to submit this comment via Jerboa, so here I am posting my comment on the website.
And Kbin is mostly just broken on phones.
The interface is completely confusing and cryptic. As far as I can tell, once you navigate off the home page, there are no links back?
And after several minutes of trying to subscribe to a “magazine”, I finally figured out that the button is rendered off-screen, and you have to scroll to the right to find it.
Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.
Makes me wonder just how many are active users
MAU means “monthly active users”. As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.
For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I’m still not comfortable with it yet.
Out of curiosity, what were some things you found hard to get used to about Mastodon?
… and then went back to twitter, but did not deactivate their #Fediverse account.
Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.
I’m not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.
It’s amazing how fast it’s growing. According to Lemmy Explorer, there are nearly 900 Instances, encompassing almost 13,000 communities. The forum software could stand some improvement, like having a way to group all your communities in one place, or figuring out whether an instance is federated. I really like the decentralized aspect of it. If a corporation tries to take over and ruin the largest instance (like what’s happening to Reddit), then folks can migrate over the the second-most popular instance(s) while the biggest one withers and dies.
Also, Mastodon looks like a great replacement for Twitter.
Usualy being a very late adopter (buy stuff last, accept trends last, switch to norms late), I’m very happy I shutdown and deleted everything from my reddit account among the first, when spez bullcrap started, and went elsewhere, I joined squabbles, kbin and lemmy. But I’m here, I like the community, adoption and migration, and seeing the numbers tells me I’m not alone. Which is good.
Some small instances are seeing sudden increases in numbers of registered users (4k to 5k new users) but not an equivalent growth in activity, my guess is someone is creating accounts on instances without captcha enabled for account registration. Most of the top 10 fastest growing instances shown here fit that criteria.
@Odo Interesting. Lemmy is somewhat strict in its definition of “active user”. You must post to be “active”, so all lurkers aren’t counted.
I’m not even sure commenting counts toward being “active”, though I’d guess it does.
So user growth without growth in “active users”, especially on smaller servers, is plausible.
I guess that’s possible. The instances I mentioned look like this:
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/parapheum.com
2 posts, 1 comment overall.
It had 10 users two days ago and 4.6k today, not a single one of them seems to have posted or commented.
So going to that instance, and going to its list of federated communities (https://parapheum.com/communities/listing_type/All/page/1) shows a few sizeable ones. Also note the instance’s description (see https://parapheum.com/) which is basically to distribute the server load without any commitment to any particular kind of community.
So, could be full of lurkers, or parallel accounts created to avoid server overload that will be soon dropped. So probably some bloat in these numbers, as there are for other platforms too
I’m surprised Lemmy is currently above kbin to be honest. Only time will tell.
@AskThinkingTim A few days ago, kbin wasn’t on that list at all :) It’s a huge honor for me, and I’m glad people are enjoying being here. Currently, my main goal is to prepare the infrastructure and sort out the basics. The real fun will start when migratories between platforms are established. This is the fediverse, and a lot can change here ;)
@ernest @fediversenews @AskThinkingTim
Yes! #kbin is super young and an upstart! Bright future!!
Are you teasing us here about migrations between platforms!?
Are you suggesting kbin<->lemmy migrations? Neither even have inter-instance migrations, right?
Or, kbin<>masto, microblogs platforms?!
It’s been around much longer.
Not sure if I should just make a post for this, but I will ask here.
Is lemmy searchable? The main appeal of reddit for me was searchability. I see a lot of different instances with different domains names.Maybe there is a meta search or something? Adding reddit to the end of a search was very convenient.
You can use this page, to search for communities (subreddits): https://browse.feddit.de/. You can also use https://sub.rehab/.
You can also just use the search function on your Lemmy instance (sh.itjust.works). It will also show content from other Lemmy instances.
Interesting question!
Lemmy has a search facility (a magnifying glass icon, generally in the top right, or perhaps behind a menu).
And it’s not bad, though rough around the edges I’d say.
It will only be specific to what your instance “can see”, which is all the activity in all the communities that all its users subscribe to.
So, no “meta search”. But it’s an interesting idea given how it was part of Reddit’s value.
No reason why one couldn’t be made on top of the network though
Why is KBin at the very bottom with almost 42k MAU? It seems like it should be second with those numbers.
The table seems to be sorted by user count which is probably a more accurate measure of popularity at the current point in time (huge changes in the last month, so anything measured “per month” probably suffers from some anomalous values depending on how you extrapolate the monthly figure from the time significantly under a month that has passed since the Reddit migration).
In my opion Lemmy has more potential then mastodon.
Curious why you think that (I’m inclined to agree FWIW).
I was able to figure out what my options were much more quickly. The UI of Kbin seems very sparse. If it offers similar functionality, it is not obvious. Also, I don’t like combining “magazines” with “microblog”. It seems like it wants to be all things to all people.
@vamp07 Yea, I agree, I think the combination done in kbin will be what some people want while others will prefer the relative focus and simplicity of lemmy.
I’m all for having choices. The thing about Kbin is that when I first land on the page I can’t even figure out how to limit what I see to only what I am subscribed to. Maybe I need to spend more time, but that level of filtering or choice seems well hidden.
