- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.
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Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.
I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?
It’s just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.
Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.
For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).
Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!
Exactly. The other end of it is that a lot of the app-specific advanced functionality made the transition for Day 1 - unless Infinity/else has some tricks i’m unaware of, its currently the most customizable/feature complete app - actual tablet modes, foldable support, biometrics for subaccounts, user painting/tagging for sub accounts, profile backups so you can carry customizations to other android devices - etc.
Its all auxiliary & definitely not required, but losing these features made Lemmy a no-go on mobile for me. It’s also missing some real basic stuff like mod tools & the ability to make posts at all, but i’ve used the app for a decade & the dev is quickly pushing fixes/new features out the door.
Yeah, it’s actually a really positive outcome because people really liked the app so they are willing to try something new.
I’ve been having to watch my social media usage again. Which is bittersweet.
Haha, I’m right there with you. I’m off Twitter & Reddit, I had no alternatives until Sync came back…
It had taken me so many years to break my reddit addiction, then my friend introduced me to lemmy, and it’s been downhill ever since 🥲
Excellent. Never going back to reddit.
I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I’m on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we’ve hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
I’m not sure how Reddit did it, but they’d show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it’s bothering them too.
Glad to know that they know!
Where’s the AMA?
It’s in the accouncements community: !announcements@lemmy.ml
I’m with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can’t get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it’s like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don’t want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).
One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in…
I wasn’t even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.
reddit is for plebs at this point
Great news! I wonder how many people have more than one account. I just made my second one because my ‘main’ server is down a lot lately.
Same here. I think we would see tools and features that would facilitate switching your server.
Yeah, I had a total of 3 initially and now I’m just down to one, barring an outage of my main instance.
same, but found an instance local to me thats actually half active which was surprising!
It’s been great seeing the community grow. Hope this keeps up at a sustainable rate until Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. become mainstays.
Can’t wait until they get so big I have to escape to tiny invite-only networks to recapture the “early days” feeling.
Though looks like only some 7 million of them are active.
It’s a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it’s decentralized and most important of all : it’s not big tech.
So… more than threads then :p
(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling…)
Lurkers or double accounts?
NSFW alts LOL
Almost certainly both. And people who made an account but who didn’t stick around.
And bots. Bots for days.
10 milloin are Mastodon users
Mastodon is great!
Lemmy and kbin are getting there now that apps are coming out.
if you find your instance unavailable jump to another. not at all like the old Tw down days. Thanks Fediverse
Interesting that Germany and France have such a large number of servers.
What are the differences between our links, as I don’t see any at all?
Would embed a picture If I could but on mobile currently.
You have nothing between the parenthesis.
[Example](example.com)
There is no parentheses at all, I’m unsure what exactly you mean. Apologies if I’m being incredibly dense.
Are you on lemmy? Are using an app?
It uses similar markdown to reddit, and something somewhere isn’t talking right
Wow its Crazy, I think this is the end of an era for centralized social media. #fuckyoufacebook #fuckyoureddit #fuckyoutwitter
Most people don’t care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what’s convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.
None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.
Well then you got a job to do. Send them meme links from lemmy , mastodon etc . The curious ones will find their way to fediverse.
end of an era
… is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.
It’s more accurate to say
beginning of a new erawhere decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle.Definitely, chat rooms persisted for a long while after things like Skype started to rise.
Forums as well after Reddit
Skype and Teamspeak after discord
We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.
Also, fuck anyone that looks like you!
and there was much rejoicing!
yaaay yaaay
As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, I’m very thankful.
Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadn’t been ready and waiting?
I really like the fediverse and I couldn’t imagine it blowing up like this 10 years ago. We’ve come a long way since then.
And no big tech!!
The content coming in lately has been awesome. Let’s go…
