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How big is lemmy nowadays (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by professionalvirgin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I discovered lemmy back when reddit started to charge for their API. However upon taking a look at it, it seemed that apart from like 8 communities,there was not much going on elsewhere. Things seem to have changed since then, quite a lot of active communities these days. So how many users do yall reckon lemmy has now? Is it close to 5M? or perhaps even higher?

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People say this, but I've been on Lemmy and Mastodon for about 1.5 years and Lemmy feels a lot more engaging than Masto. My posts there get one or two likes and boosts, while posts and comments here regularly get dozens if not hundreds of upvotes. I think Blue Sky is eating their lunch right now.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Microblogging is about individuals while lemmy is about topics.

With the former, unless you involve algorithmic recommendations or recommendation lists like bluesky, its going to be a lot of work for users to get a nice feed from just following individual people.

With the latter, the things i mentioned are basically built into the system so its easier to get a lively experience even with much fewer users.

[–] dentino_F@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My experience goes against this position.

Between quite a few really active users and the ability to follow hashtags I have had a very active timeline almost since day 1 in Mastodon.

To put it in comparison, I find it hard to keep up with the Masto timeline while my 6-hour best sorting starts quickly showing a ton of doubles (wouldn't it be great if we could somehow make them go away? )

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

In Thunder you can at least disable showing crossposts which should remove a lot of duplicates.