It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

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https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Total users are huge now.

There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

  • BingBongTheArcher@lemmy.today
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    29 minutes ago

    I’m fairly new myself and in the last week I’ve noticed quite a few new users. Not a ton but a lot more than when I joined months ago.

  • expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Nope. It seems it is a sicker Reddit. No matter the congenitalilty, the engagement is just frankly gross.

    Maybe I need to move from lemmy.zip, but the vetting is a pain in the ass.

    People are just difficult to even talk to these days.

    I am actually a really sweet but sardonic guy. No freedom of speech and no humor. Just an exasperation of the things that killed reddit.

    No actual discussion. Fuck this.

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      3 hours ago

      If you’re not a socialist then you may often find yourself lost and unwelcome here, and I’m absolutely not talking about the ml grounds because they lowkey welcome fascists

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      lemmy.zip imo is notoriously shit. It was one of the first communities I blocked when I joined the fediverse.

    • Zacryon@feddit.org
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      12 hours ago

      There is just so much you can do as a human even with multiple accounts. So unless you’re daily driving 50 accounts somehow and most others got nothing better to do as well, I still count that as a positive trend.

      • Vegafjord - demcon@slrpnk.net
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        12 hours ago

        Im not downplaying the growth. Just putting out there that it is easy to think active users means different people, which is not true.

    • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, I’m new (also driven from Reddit after the recent changes) and within like a week I signed up for three different servers, and I’ll probably sign up for more if I can figure out how to navigate servers well enough to find what I’m looking for.

      It’s actually rather nice to have separate accounts for different use cases and not mix, say, a memery and general discussion account with an art account.

    • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      True, same for me. But I have been for quite a while and I’m not creating new ones. I’m guessing legit users don’t need many accounts, so I’d be more concerned about botting.

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    21 hours ago

    I joined Lemmy, like 3 years ago I think. But I didn’t start being active until this year. I think there is a lot of people like me, especially now that you have to log in to see old reddit. https://old.lemmy.world/ really tipped me over the edge in to being a regular.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      20 hours ago

      Leaving Reddit wasn’t easy. I read the tea leaves and left at apigate.

      I had already eschewed Youtube API and was keeping Facebook out of arms length,

      I poked around Bluesky for a while, it had a very strong pull.

      I do not need machine-fed unlimited social media and news I don’t thrive on it. Doomscrolling is not a good hobby.

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        19 hours ago

        Yea, reddit has been a serious habit for me for almost 20 years, never been on Insta or Facebook or any other SM platform like I was on reddit, everyday all day in the background. Its been a hard one to break.

    • adjectivenoun@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      They’ve really managed to enshittify the site beyond even what I expected back when the API changes went live. I guess it was expected. First Digg shot itself, now Reddit…

      • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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        16 hours ago

        web-scraping is. however, ai companies pretending to be yet another instance and getting the data through federation does not cause much of a slow-down, since that’s what happens with other instances already anyways.