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anticommon , to fediverse in 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Rather have 240k users here than 240m on reddit.

Sometimes it’s the quality of the shit posts and not the post shits.

ohlaph ,

Diarrhea doesn’t always win.

Afrazzle ,

Yep, reddit got too big for its own good.

atempuser23 ,

I’m surprised how lively it feels here. It’s amazing that it feels nearly as fell as reddit with not even 1% of the user base.

mtat ,

People who use lemmy are more likely to be power users. The people who use their reddit account once a month generally don’t know or care about the issues that caused a lot of us to migrate.

gmtom ,

I think the users on here tend to be active on the site in general rather than just a few specific subreddits. And also the small amount of users all interacting on the same communities gives the entire site the feeling that smaller subreddits used to have. Which was always infinitely better than big subreddits will millions of users, infested with bots.

Dodgeit ,
@Dodgeit@lemmy.ca avatar

Some of that prime, homegrown free range organic shit posting

FartsWithAnAccent , to coffee in What Creamer do you prefer? Anyone sitting on a gem?
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

My gem? Drinking coffee black.

qwet OP ,
@qwet@lemmy.world avatar

Same atm, but I’m feeling adventurous so I’ve decided to branch out. I’m thinking heavy whipping cream (thx Bioemerl) with a wee kick of honey to start. maybe see what vanilla extract will do…

myusernameisokay ,

Maybe try with a bit of milk. If you enjoy black coffee why go for something unhealthy like creamer?

qwet OP ,
@qwet@lemmy.world avatar

creamer isn’t exactly unhealthy, its the full context of a persons diet that matters, really. indulgences are the spice of life. Maybe ill try both…

Talaraine ,
@Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

heavy cream has very few carbs, making it a purposeful choice in many diets

shadesdk , to memes in Please help the itching is unbearable

This is one gamble I am willing to make.

turbodrooler , to retrogaming in The battlestation

What is the device on the top left? The big SNES controller one.

Duvidl OP ,

Hyperkin Supaboy.

Let’s play Super Nintendo games on the go using the original cartridges.

turbodrooler ,

Wow, pretty cool

garretble , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

This is great.

I really wish more news sites set up their own instances. At the start I realize they wouldn’t be getting as many eyeballs, but it seems to make a lot of sense to have a @news or something. Then Wolf could have @Wolf[email protected].

Instant “verification” that way, too.

But we’ll see.

CodeMonkeyDance ,

Wow. Decentralization as a whole will be a game changer for all corners of media, science etc.

AnotherPerson ,
@AnotherPerson@lemmy.world avatar

I had the same exact thoughts when the first twitter migration happened. I doubt we will see it, but I can dream.

Fonchote ,

Agreed, not sure how I feel about governments setting up their own servers, but news organizations definitely.

klieg2323 ,
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How would you propose government officials officially distribute verified information? Just for government officials and distribution, that’s the whole point of having a .gov domain is so you can know it’s official

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

Only employees can have an account on those servers. Registration is not open to the public.

Dapado ,

That’s a really great idea. It makes so much sense that it seems weird that it’s not already the way things are done.

2bR02b ,

Given how the fediverse is kinda like e-mail, this feels like a natural next step.

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

The only way they would do that is if they could monetize it somehow.

garretble ,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah totally.

I had the thought that since Threads “doesn’t want politics” on their platform, and Twitter is trash, maaaaybe activity pub could be a thing.

But you are right: they won’t do anything if it won’t make money.

Jourei ,

Isn’t their entire strategy to fish people onto their site, make money that way? Twitter doesn’t pay them either.

cacheson ,
@cacheson@kbin.social avatar

It'd be another method to drive traffic to their websites and gain more ad revenue. Same as maintaining a presence on twitter or facebook, or providing an RSS feed.

JackbyDev ,

Does CNN already own that domain?

garretble ,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

I have no idea. That’s just an example.

JackbyDev ,

Ah, okay, it would make more sense to say something like social.cnn.com since they already own and use cnn.com.

variaatio ,

For some crazy reason they haven’t snatched it up yet. Atleast a domain seller website is saying it is free for pickings, if you want it.

Then again maybe their policy is to put everything as subdomain on cnn.com and make cnn.com their sole brand “if it’s not on cnn.com, it’s not that CNN”. Still i would have though they defensive register all relevant TLDs, even if they never ever use them.

JackbyDev ,

I don’t remember which pizza chain (or it has since been fixed) but something like papajohns.pizza used to redirect to dominos.com.

rockyrikoko , to assholedesign in A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape

Hmmm, maybe I’ve been on the internet too long but the handwriting doesn’t look like it was written on a vertical pole. It looks like it was easy to write

Bootheal0179 ,
@Bootheal0179@lemmy.world avatar

Just guessing, but she may be a professional pole dancer with a particular skill set

Viking_Hippie ,

I’d definitely watch that version of Taken, especially if still stars Liam Neeson 😂

PownyRyda ,

As the professional pole dancer, of course.

Viking_Hippie ,

Naturally.

ColonelSanders , to fediverse in 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but you can’t really just add those up and expect that number to be accurate if we’re trying to look at unique users within the fediverse. If I had to hazard a guess, a not-so-insignificant chunk of those probably overlap (i.e. users who have made multiple accounts across several instances). I have made an account across lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin and fedia just as backups in case one instance fails. I might be an extreme case having 4, but pretty sure it’s becoming increasingly common for people to have at least 2 accounts (1 on a different instance).

jdsquared ,

Yeah I have two accounts. But that’s when lemme.world was kind of crashing because of that update, and I thought I was doing something wrong. So I went to a different instance.

DoctorTYVM ,

I made a bunch of accounts on a bunch of instances when I first started because I didn’t understand how they were connected. Even now, I’d suggest having one or two on the instances you like and decide which ones work best

MicroWave OP , (edited )
@MicroWave@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, you’re not wrong. Too bad we don’t have unique user data to know for sure.

That’s why I sorted by active users (users who comment or post, not just lurking) instead to get a more accurate picture with the given data. For example, sh.itjust.works has more users than beehaw.org, but it’s ranked below beehaw because of fewer active users.

I think eventually instances with a lot of duplicate accounts will slowly fall out of the top rankings due to inactivity. That’s why I chose to look at just the top 10.

marsokod ,
@marsokod@lemmy.world avatar

To be fair, I am sure many people also have multiple accounts on the same instance. I am not sure what is the proportion between people opening accounts for backup like you and people just wanting alt accounts.

Stovetop ,

With this same logic in mind, I’d assume almost the entire population of lemmynsfw should be disregarded from this count, which is almost certainly majority comprised of people’s porn alts that they want to keep separate from their main accounts.

missveeronica ,

Hey, I resemble that remark…

astral_avocado ,
@astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Pfft, I’m horny on main 24/7 baby

blargher ,

If anything, I’m betting the population of lemmynsfw is more representative of the number of unique accounts across all instances since there’s really no point in creating more than one porn account.

Frostwolf ,
@Frostwolf@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know if this is counted but it’s also perfectly reasonable to have accounts on defederated instances. So if this is counted that might inflate the numbers a bit.

Maebbie ,

yeah same, i made an account on 3 instances, since i see some instances being trigger happy with defederating, its just not clear yet which instances will be the most free.

Tibuntu OP , to cat in Draw me like one of your french cats

Not sure why the image was rotated after posting 😅

moreeni ,

It’s better this way

Cruxifux , to aww in Very exhausted after a long day of napping

Same

jordanlund , to fediverse in 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Where does lemmy.one sit? That’s where I made my account because a) it didn’t seem to matter and 2) I was told that lemmy world and lemmy.ml were under stress due to the reddit shenanigans.

MicroWave OP ,
@MicroWave@lemmy.world avatar

lemmy.one is currently at with 7132 users and 1170 active users.

ArcBlades , to fediverse in 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Who would have thought, taking away a huge reason why people use your platform and being a douche bag about it would drive people to use other platforms.

Rhynoplaz , to retrogaming in The battlestation

Ok, now you got me wondering.

I see you wrap your N64 controllers on the right side. I’ve always done an alternating Left/Right wrap.

Anyone want to pick a side or create a new one?

Duvidl OP ,
xc2215x , to fediverse in 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Great to see from Lemmy.

wt1a , to programmerhumor in i thought she'd be happy for me

104 stars is damn impressive… can’t compare github stars to low effort social media likes!

aidan OP ,

Yeah, although the thing that makes me the most happy is actually seeing stuff I made being used.

JustARegularNerd ,

What sort of stuff do you make?

aidan OP ,

Very random projects but my two most starred are a JS package for using the Google Translate API for free, and a JS project that scrapes a ton of traffic camera data from local government websites.

Korne127 , to programmerhumor in i thought she'd be happy for me
@Korne127@lemmy.world avatar

I’m genuinely just really sorry. 104 stars is awesome for a hobby project, and if she isn’t, I’m proud of that and happy for you :)
But yeah, I’m sorry that she hasn’t appreciated that and reacted in a nice way… and besides that, obviously coding open source is something good for job prospects.

aidan OP ,

Yeah I guess. I’ve only been able to get internships- good internships. But I’ve never been able to get a real job

Korne127 ,
@Korne127@lemmy.world avatar

I wish you best of luck doing that (when you want to(?)); I hope you’ll be able to get a good job in a field that you enjoy to work within.

aidan OP ,

Thank you!

Aidan ,

Well you managed to get the username [email protected] before me, so that’s something

aidan OP ,

haha, yeah and it was only a week ago

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