The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
…is this for real? I don’t want to check, but I also can’t tell if this is a joke.
I just checked, it exists but has 2500 subs
They’ve Streisanded it. Just the previous mention jumped the numbers 25%!
All part of my master plan
https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it’s just have 2000 user?
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
You can try posting it to !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , not sure how well it will be received
I’m holding out till we get taytays back of the knees sub! That’s truely the peak god tier content! Looool
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).
Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen
Everyone is comparing active users to total users though, Lemmy’s total users is about 10x the number of actives users at 477k. I think you have to post or comment to be marked active?
Think it was changed to include upvotes/downvotes. Could be wrong, saw it on a similar thread.
Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only…
You make I upload? Deal?
So much possibility…
numbers
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
Welcome back!
I have been temporarily banned from a new account I made a while ago to return after my permabanned last summer. I am seriously thinking of fully ditching reddit save for a few special nerdy interests (and porn).
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
That’s why I’m here.
Welcome!
Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.
No you haven’t!
I mean, if they drop a hot fucking meme like this every time I wouldn’t even be mad.
You’re welcome.
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
Lemmy needs post creators above all but we will take everyone
Sir, shit posters are the back bone of any online fora.
I am not interesting
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
Which community is that so I can block it?
Hah, beat you to the joke by 4 minutes, nerd!
Honestly, that’s like a millisecond in Lemmy terms, so well done.
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
Fun times.
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn’t auto perm ban me “ban evasion,” and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn’t want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it’s clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It’s like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should’ve been made long ago.
Do you have a graph for these numbers?
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
🫶 Its hard to give up all that history
No history is gone, all your posts and comments stay up lol, you have to manually edit them or use a third party service, too late now. They still have any helpful info you gave.
I manually edited mine before deleting
Reddit still has them. And already rolled back edits where useful
Yeah, it was tough. I did clean it out a couple of times over the years, but it’d been a while when I deleted it.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
Gotta start making them and posting just to get the ball rolling a little, you can always turn over moderating if someone wants it. I need to take my own advice when I’m bored.
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
Beep Boop, Am Not A Bot… 🤖
Show us a filled checkbox right this instant!
Erm… checkbox… here: ❌️
🤖
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a bot?
Slow and steady wins the race.
I find this true of so few actual races.
Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the age of the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.
Edit: Okay, I read the rest of the article. Quite a ride.
Wow. Absolute legend
It was our evolutionary success as a human animal. We were never the fastest, strongest or even the most numerous at the start. But working slowly as a cooperative community, we conquered every liveable space on the planet. We can do the same online.
Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it
Someone fetch me my spear
And my axe!
