• @3volver
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    7511 months ago

    For anyone who needs a reminder: user account ≠ human individual user. There are no bot/captcha protections nor IP restrictions on Lemmy. I’d say we have less than 1 million actual human individual users.

      • @psud
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        511 months ago

        I have three, this is the most reliable

        • Flying Squid
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          311 months ago

          I have two, but only because I got annoyed with seeing an a login screen any time I clicked on a kbin comment.

          Not that it matters since kbin doesn’t show context anyway.

          Shouldn’t have bothered.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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          411 months ago

          There are legit reasons, for example your main instance is buggy or does not federate with all services. Also, browsing Lemmy via Mastodon etc. is not convenient at all.

    • @someguy3
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      11 months ago

      I think it’s grown quite a bit though. Lots more posts, votes, conversation.

      • @[email protected]
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        2611 months ago

        Facts, having been here since the API shit went down, i have seen a LOT more engagement on the platform compared to july 2023

        • aasatru
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          19 months ago

          I remember checking out Lemmy in December 2022, it was barely even a proof of concept. Now it’s a whole ecosystem.

          it’s incredible how far it has gotten in a short time. And while commercial platforms will only get worse with time, open source platforms will only get better. Growth might not always be a linear process, but I’m feeling optimistic. :)

    • Aurelius
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      2011 months ago

      I would imagine that if bots accounted for so much traffic, we would see more steep vertical growth in numbers

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 months ago

      There are indeed many Lemmy instances that have captcha protection, it’s really up to the instance admins if they want to protect or not. Many of those “spam” instances do get quickly defederated by the serious ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      Yes, but I don’t think it matters. It’s not hyper specialized yet, but the initial problem of “there are no users” is gone. I don’t think anything can stop the fediverse now. The protocol is just too useful to not support.

      • @dumpsterlid
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        211 months ago

        Hopefully nothing can stop the fediverse but I am not convinced a company like Meta can’t embrace, extend and extinguish it.

    • @Capricorn_Geriatric
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      511 months ago

      A lot (if not all) Fedi users have multiple accounts on various instances and platforms, so that also inflates the figure

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        if not all

        I don’t, so that’s at least one person who doesn’t have multiple accounts

        • Da Bald Eagul
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          311 months ago

          There is likely a large amount of people with both a mastodon and a Lemmy account, just to name some.

        • @Capricorn_Geriatric
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          Because you pretty much need a seperate Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon account. I’ve heard that it’s somehow possible to see Lemmy posts from Mastodon, but I haven’t really been able to understand it. Apparently, it’s janky as hell, but I wouldn’t know, as I just have 3 accounts I use, one for each ‘service’.

          Since I moved during the Reddit fiasco when servers were overloaded and didn’t know what I was doing I just hopped from instance to instance. So now I have at least 7 dead accounts that are still probably counted in the ‘users’ statistic.

          I’d say one person counting for ~10 is significant, and I doubt I’m alone, even if I am an outlier with my instance-hopping

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            Lemmy and Kbin should be pretty interoperable, but Lemmy and Mastodon don’t federate particularly well, or at least, the user experience of federation is not great. The formats are just very different since Mastodon doesn’t have much of a concept of groups or communities and doesn’t have post titles and so on.

            But you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon and posts to the community will show up in your Mastodon feed, and you can boost, favorite (upvote), and comment on the post.