A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
My join request hasn’t been acknowledged yet and it’s been a couple of days :(
Ditto, I joined lemmy.world instead
Yeah I’m on .world too. Ruud, the sysadmin, is working on improving reply delays.
With a username like that !nsfw@reddthat.com might be something interesting to you
If you use gmail, go ahead and try to log in to beehaw - some people were accepted and didn’t get confirmation emails sent to their gmail because of a bug. I think they may have fixed that by now, but it’s possible this got you.
Other people are stuck in a “pending rejection for insufficient info to tell if you’re a fit for the community, but you can re-apply with more info” pile, I think.
They’re just super overwhelmed right now.
I just signed up and got in in a few minute! It’s worth the wait!
Why is lemmygrad so popular?
If I remember my Lemmy history right (someone correct me)…
In the early days of Lemmy, everyone was on one instance (lemmy.ml). The founding Lemmy developers (and their friends, I guess) were tankies. At some point they decided to make Lemmy more attractive to the general population, and make the flagship lemmy.ml less overtly Marxist-Leninist/offputting. So they split lemmy.ml into 2: lemmy.ml for non-commie stuff, and lemmygrad.ml for commie stuff. Since the bulk of Lemmy users in the early days were still tankies (or their friends), they were still generally using both instances very heavily.
The day that lemmygrad.ml ceases to be the #2 instance and becomes just another niche-interest instance is the day we can say Lemmy has truly become mainstream, I think.
All the cancerous social rejects and useful idiots. Wouldn’t be surprised ir it’s being propped up by Russian/Chinese propaganda machine either. At least I sincerely hope some of the people there are not real.
Tankies are the persistent type.
I had to look up what a tankie was. Back in the day, we called them ‘pinkos’.
Poked my head in to the AMA and it’s basically what I expected. To the surprise of no-one Spez is a tool and should go boil his ass.
I spent years on Reddit and somehow didn’t realize until today what an unscrupulous person he is. And not only unscrupulous, but downright unprofessional.
We can say what we want about someone like Mark Zuckerberg, but he would never behave in the way that Spez did in that AMA. It’s just not befitting of the CEO of a company.
He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.
The answers were infuriating beyond all reason. Like dude… If you’re trying to avoid being used for training llms, that’s totally reasonable. Nuking all 3P apps is an insane response, fuck off.
Beehaw 🔛🔝
Yeehaw Beehaw!
I really like where this is going. Feels like we’re settling a new frontier!
Is there a time-series plot version of this? I always have difficulty really absorbing the data when it is animated like that.
Wow beehaw really took off recently huh?
What this doesn’t show is active users, just total. For quite some time we’ve been one of the most active large instances. I don’t remember the exact timing, but we’ve held the spot of 3rd most active for some time, we just now have total users to match that.
I notice (and I realize it’s most likely an issue at the source and not the fault of the creator) that some now-dead instances which were formerly top-10 aren’t show here. Hexbear also isn’t shown: while it (currently) doesn’t federate, similarly to bakchodi, it is also a fork and so technically not Lemmy, but pretty much Lemmy.
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Is it possible to message on mastodon and peertube with lemmy (or is it only through kbin currently)? I was trying to figure out how that worked but had some difficulty
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I don’t see anything. All it says is a flourish data visualization
Click on one of the links, and you will be taken to the page where the visualization is. The visualizations are not rendered on beehaw.org.
Ok it works now
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to update it again in the future? I’d love to see what happens an about a month!
The numbers are still quite low compared to what the activity now feels like. Two weeks ago I could easily read all posts and comments and now I can’t follow the many new posts ^^
I’m being a lot more active here than I was on Reddit. Trying to make sure it feels like a dynamic space for new redfugees :)
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
I’m feeling the same way, but I suppose we’ll soon see.
Even if the reddit exodus doesn’t turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.
I chose not to sign up on lemmy.ml as it didn’t seem that they were looking to become “big”, and seems more focused on a specific niche. How come they are so popular despite those points?
People see that they have the highest user count and gravitate towards it. Most people don’t really get how federation works, so they worry about getting “stuck” on an instance with no one to talk to
Most people don’t really get how federation works
This is 100% me, but my understanding is that you can see all community content and interact with everyone regardless of what server you’re on, is that more or less correct? I went with beehaw because it seemed moderately popular (I’d read that servers can disappear, and figure more users=less likely?) and is focused on keeping out assholes, which I am 100% cool with.
A good analogy I’m seeing thrown around is email: everyone has their own email provider - gmail, yahoo, outlook, or a corporate email server, etc - but all of those can send and receive emails from every other one. I have gmail, but I can email you at yahoo, and recieve emails from my friend on hotmail. If gmail starts being shitty and corporate or making decisions I don’t like, I can switch to a different provider, and crucially, gmail doesn’t get to decide how the rest of the email universe behaves.
Lemmy instances are like the email providers, and “sending emails” is like interacting with communites on any instance. If my Lemmy instance starts serving ads or something I can just leave it, and still have access to all the other communites on every other instance.
That’s really helpful, thanks!
I to thought it wise to pick one with high numbers. It had nothing to do with being afraid of not having people to talk to though, as I understood that we’d all be connected. It was more a fear that an instance with 20 users might get shut down because the owner got bored. In my mind it seems less likely that a popular instance gets shut down.
So what happens to an account if an I stance goes away?
There are some mastodon accounts/bots that update statistics about mastodon everyday. It would be awesome to do the same thing about lemmy on regular basis, like once per week or month. Awesome.
