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To take a step back and see how far we've gone, Discuit, another link aggregator created around one year ago, published their weekly report - 245 weekly active users (detailed report in link)

Discuit is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)

Lemmy has 48k monthly active users (mau): lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Mbin has 862 mau: mbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Piefed has 133 mau: piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

On Tildes site, I counted around 25 posts per day: tildes.net/?order=new

We can see that federation was indeed a better solution, looking at the difference in number of Discuit and Tildes (not federated) vs Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed

Lost_My_Mind ,

48k? That’s it??? No wonder this place is so dead.

Also, what’s a mau?

originalucifer ,
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monthly active user

Schal330 ,

I see new content every day, and that is after blocking a lot of instances that aren’t relevant to my taste. I don’t think this place is dead, it just needs more of those 48k to contribute.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I don’t click on the comments section if they have no comments. I am on here so often it could be described not as monthly, not as weekly, not as daily, not as hourly, but as minutely.

So I wake up, I see about 60 stories…and maybe 45 of them have comments. Ok. I have content for about an hour. I blocked I think 4 users? I’ve not blocked any communities, and I haven’t personally defederated from any instances, but I do reside on Lemmy.World which does defederate from quite a few communities.

Blaze OP ,

Is 60 stories for your Subscribed or Local feed?

Lost_My_Mind ,

Subscribed. And I just counted, I’m subscribed to 161 different communities. And despite only subscribing to ONE political sub, my feed is mostly dominated by political stories.

Subscribed for me, doesn’t look THAT different from All. Except All has porn, and linux.

Blaze OP ,

Imagine what it would be with 245 weekly active users

Lost_My_Mind ,

We need millions of minutely active users. People who work boring jobs, and just spend all day on Lemmy, talking trash about reddit, and all agreeing that George Clooney is a smug bastard.

Blaze OP ,

George Clooney is a smug bastard

That’s oddly specific

Lost_My_Mind ,

Have you not come across any of the multiple comments I’ve made exactly like this?

Blaze OP ,

George Clooney doesn’t ring any bell

catloaf ,

It’s an Egyptian cat.

solrize ,

What is this thing and who is supposed to care? It looks sort of like Mastodon: is it related?

Blaze OP ,

It is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)

The message conveyed is that federation was indeed a better solution, looking at the difference in number of Discuit vs Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed

kia ,

It’s another reddit alternative.

m4t ,
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@Blaze @fediverse nice ui! is it federated ?

AsudoxDev , (edited )
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Nope. Discuit is not a part of the fediverse. They also seem to dislike the fediverse, as far as calling it something that can never become mainstream any day soon.

Because of centralization and the dev’s delusions of being able to cover the fees for running the service can be fully provided by donations will eventually get it to be enshittified. What a retard.

m4t ,
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@AsudoxDev how can they expect to compete with reddit/lemmy - with 250 mau - and without fediverse ? curious to see how they’ll manage it

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