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/.
Yeehaw Beehaw!
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
Nice, thanks.
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.
Is there a time-series plot version of this? I always have difficulty really absorbing the data when it is animated like that.
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.
Tankies are the persistent type.
I had to look up what a tankie was. Back in the day, we called them ‘pinkos’.
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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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Beehaw 🔛🔝
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.
is there anywhere i can watch the AMA? it was on /r/videos?
I don’t see anything. All it says is a flourish data visualization
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.
