Lemmy and other fediverse platforms have, in general, trended towards an increase in users. Been here for a year and I can assure you I have noticed a slow increase in activity.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Generally yes.
I have noticed a lot of new users. My small instance went from a little over 50 to 150 since the start of this year. Being added to join-lemmy probably helped with that. Circumstantial evidence, I know. But worth noting.
And this is your only comment. Congrats on setting up an instance.
EDIT: Apparently my instance hasn't been completely federated yet and I can't see all the comments yet.
Thanks @TORFdot0 for the response.
Oh, we've been around for 1,5 years. Just never been big enough to get on the join-lemmy.org page.
Thanks though!
This is the only comment your instance knows about because of the way federation works. I can see his comment history goes back 1.7 years
Thanks. Good to know.
You might want to set up a federation account on your instance, and add it on https://lemmy-federate.com/ for easy federation
That says my instance is not registered
You can register it. It will send you a dm on lemmy to validate. No password needed
I got logged in with my admin account. Looks to be a waiting process. So wait I shall do. Thank you for the help!
Ok. Thank you. I'm going to see into that when I get home
I think being added to join-lemmy definitely helps but people that are already on Lemmy arenβt going to that site so it definitely shows that we are growing (or at least replacing people at a decent rate)
Sounds like you have a good instance, congrats on the growth
I sin and still use reddit. Lately I've seen an increase of users there suggesting them to come here when unpopular changes are happening to reddit. Those comments are normally quite high up with a lot of discussion surrounding it so I assume it is attracting some of them to come here. When this place has enough content for my feed I'll eventually ditch reddit but in the meantime I'll still use both.
I got here from reddit yesterday , so it got me in.. still have a ton to learn aboyt lemmy but its nice and cozy and people are not karmafarming or being assholes for sake of engagement
Lemmy has a bit of a learning curve if u come from twatter or facebook , but for a redditor it feels like a nice summer home.
It definitely needs more content but thats why we can make more and do more i guess ? Post memes , have talks , do usual things arround here and more people will come , esp with "buy european" movement promoting lemmy over reddit
I think we all need to learn to be okay with having less content. Makes the platform less addictive and makes us less prone to doom scrolling I think.
Yes and it's higher quality content, reddit us pages of pure shit
I agree with you in principle , but doomscrolling isnt just about having content but its a symptom of something else entirely imo (algorithmic content , people being addicted to slop etc) ... more content means more people at the end of the day , and more people means more interesting conversations , posts , interactions etc
I feel like I see a lot of fresh faces on Lemmy. Itβs nice!
I'm one of them heeeeyyyy
Last weekend I used a scrubber to delete every post and comment from my 15 year old Reddit account, then deleted the account, so I've finally burned the boats on the move. Lemmy is perfectly fine as it is. It'll ebb and flow for users, but I've been happy for a year here now.
Can I ask you what scrubber you used?
I'm perma banned from Reddit but can obviously still read what goes on and a funny thing has happened: since I can reply or react I've become less emotional in response and started going through users profiles and the amount of bots has become obvious.
It's a blessing in disguise. Reddit is actually Facebook of the more "left" of the internet now.
It's all imploding on us that lean left while the right seem to have no idea they're interacting with bots and shills
i actually believe lemmy should cross post to reddit, just so redditors can get exposure to lemmy. I got banned off of reddit years ago so I have little idea whats going on over there, i just see on lemmy that reddit has used ai based bots for moderating. I'm pretty much thinking of niche things to build up to help produce more content
I disagree. I tried to cross post to the silos for 11 years https://jeena.net/notes/1 and I couldn't move anyone to an alternative platform. Cross posting only legitimizes the other platform and gives them free content to exploit.
Idk how you exploit content. It's ussually the creators that get exploited. The idea is you put the content out there and put an impression on people so eventually they start thinking about them think about comming to Lemmy. I got nothing if you don't want to support x or twitter by crossposting from Lemmy.
I still say Lemmy/fediverse needs to build more niches community's up more than it needs to market so that way people stick around or engage more, so people don't drop off the platform from boredom
And I'm saying after cross posting for years nobody cares and they are all happy to read your posts on Musks or Zuckerbergs platform surrounded by ads and making those billionaires even richer.
Those people will not switch as long as you put the content conveniently there, there is no incentive for them. And even once you stop they still will not move from there because it's just too convenient to not move.
I for one don't want to put more money into billionaires pockets, therefore I'm advocating against cross posting automatically.
On my feed I don't see much that could be crossposted to reddit. Lemmy has it's own culture which probably clashes somewhat with reddit. The best thing imo is creating content within lemmy's quieter communities. I do now and then but I'm not a massive poster or commentor.
This website says:
Total Servers: 18,851
+19K since last month
So last month there -149 servers?
All of the numbers are rounded. Maybe this is the first month collecting data so everything is starting from 0?
IIRC they stopped collecting data briefly because it was affecting the sites they were checking. They must have fixed that since it's running again
that source says that the fediverse has more MAU then other sources on fediverse stats.
What sources are you using ?
Seems to be declining, no?
Probably mastodon competing with bluesky as it seems most well known Twitter refugees are skeeting these days..
Yes! It seems it's growing by leaps and bounds.
Lemmy is hovering at 50k monthly active users.
hmmm ive been on fediverse for a few months so it seems stable with a fluctuations in activity