Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000
(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).
We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- And a small increase on Piefed: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: https://peertube.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Mastodon is all over the place: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
the problem with this place is it's not user-friendly. and the posts/comments are too nerdy/niche for most people. my lemmy frontpage is like 50% linux nonsense. ordinary people dont' know what linux is.
Ive been here over a year and I still don't know wtf is going on. I don't know what aussie.zone is, I don't know what "local" is versus "all", I don't know what "all" includes and why it changes. I don't know how to find new subs except accidentally on "all", my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.
But, after all that it's still better than Reddit.
Aussie.zone is the server that you created your account on, think of it like having a yahoo email address. Some people have Gmail, some have outlook or iCloud, some have their own private domain. It really doesn’t matter too much because everyone can talk to everyone else, generally. Local is just every community hosted on Aussie.zone. All is everyone else and every other community in every other server that Aussie.zone is federated to (hasn’t blocked). Discover ability is certainly a problem and I’ve been here for two years and haven’t figured that out except stumbling on new communities on all just like you. You’ve pretty much got a handle on it it seems, I would just suggest a good client like Voyager to make things more intuitive on touchscreens if that’s what you’re looking for.
List of communities is there:
https://lemmy.zip/communities
ofc this is Fedi so that's just a list; there is no the list
so decentralized, so Internet
Boon and bane
Take an instance that federates with almost everybody and "all" will show you everything available.
You had no idea what you were doing and somehow you still won
Hahahaha this is the best comment I ever read!
I think I'll post it to !fedimemes@feddit.uk
Profile picture checks out
My problem is less the nerdy and niche stuff. Because there’s a lot of communities and you can subscribe to what you like.
My problem is more how there’s a lot of debate lords, arseholes, and I’m the smartest in the world types.
But I guess that’s the case on all social media. Really shits on what’s otherwise a nice experience here tho.
But someone has to be the smarted in the world, who are you to say it isn't me? /s
Are you saying that I am NOT the smartest person in the world?! That is news to me!
That's because I am the smartest person in the world!
Ordinary people know what Linux is, they just don't care about. So the effect is the pretty much the same, but for different reasons.
if it's less niche it will be flooded with ragebait and covert ads and such. better it stays a bit more niche. that's why i'm fine with it being a little bit more nerdy than other mainstream platforms.
I see those posts all the time and even I'm not totally sure