How active is Lemmy now? (discuss.online)

submitted 2 months ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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How many millions of users does it have? How many posts? How active are they?

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?

"Millions of users" is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small -- assuming you're interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active "Lemmy" is is entirely dependent on which topics you're interested in.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

The active user base is trending slightly downward as a few instances have shut down recently but the amount of registered users is steadily increasing so those trends will reverse as the largest barrier to entry is just knowing about Lemmy and creating an account.

Users: 467k

MAU: 42k

Posts: 10.8m

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so

I run into a lot of the same names, but I think that's fine (if not preferable)

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick. A ranking of 'user-recognition' would be fun. Though obviously impractical.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

We all know what that list would look like: https://feddit.org/post/3602869

TLDR version:

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn't know of them before this week. I've seen your username far more, for example.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 0 points 2 months ago

True true. I think Lemmy.ml tends to be more insular than most instances though? e.g. the default sort is Local rather than All. Like basically for people who already had most of their Fediverse needs met, there was less need to join communities across the wider range?

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know enough to say if it's more insular or not, I don't know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but we're definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.

You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really don't know.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

Well it is one of the top 10 instances, and defederated from almost no other instances, so it definitely is rather well-known:-).

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

There are dozens of us?

[-] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 2 months ago

Dozens!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

About 0.04 million monthly active users

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

40k users is huge. Remember, lemmy is not profit driven. We don't need to grow at all costs, we can grow naturally and sustainably.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

....I kinda like it right now. Some communities of less than a 1000 have much more human responses. It nice. And not just from one server.

[-] sith@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

The density of quality users and interactions on Lemmy nowadays reminds me of Reddit’s earlier days

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

This active

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

“Do you know about our lord and savior, Linux? Let me tell you about it…”

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Well actually we use Arch btw...

Also, technically...

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm practically a fixture on Lemmy, and I view everything sorted by newest comments so I see only new posts and posts actively being participated in through replies and I'd say it's only slightly less active than Reddit appearance wise. Surely there is less things being posted over all, but I can just refresh the page every few seconds and get entirely new posts almost every single time, barring a few hours in the middle of the week.

I know that someone has a statistic site for Lemmy that could actually show you exactly what you wanna know, but I haven't saved the URL and don't know it off the top of my head.