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:

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

  • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

    Most posts are links to other websites.

    It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

    Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don’t want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.

      • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

          Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

          • fujiwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

            The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

            The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

            I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

            We’ll see what happens I guess.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • threeduck@aussie.zoneEnglish
        01·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          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.

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 month ago

    Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all

  • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 month ago

    not loving the inorganic appearance in some of those rises and climbs. the sudden ones or the curved ones.

    • Elgenzay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      The first big jump lines up with the Reddit API Controversy. The June 2025 rise and fall is users migrating from lemm.ee, and then their previous accounts becoming inactive. I imagine the other irregularities are from similar events