According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Lemmy has ~67,500 daily active users over the past two weeks (it did peak at around 72,000)
How do you feel about the activity in your communities?
Do you think it will take another ‘event’ on some other website for more growth, or do you think Lemmy can grow naturally from here?
Or are you fine with the current activity and don’t necessarily see the need for more users at this time?
I quite like it not being as busy. Everything feels a bit calmer.
anytime I saw a thread on reddit with 1,000+ comments I didn’t even bother to add my own view
I do like how pretty much any thread here on the fediverse is small enough that I feel like I can make a comment and participate
It’s not about being busy, it’s about being used.
Most subs are dead or just one person posting content trying to kick it off. We need more people for the niche communities to survive and thrive:
I think it’ll come with time. As Lemmy (the software) and its userbase matures, the situation will be better for smaller communities.
Yes but I would like to have friends here
I’d like my special interest communities to be a bit more active…
If any of you like wresting please come post on !squaredcircle@kbin.social
If any of you read fantasy books please come post on !fantasy@lemmy.ml or !fantasy@kbin.social
Lemmy has cleared some early hurdles to grow from almost nothing to 60k DAUs. I’ve enjoyed talking to people over the past month in a more friendly and intimate way than on that other site. The main communities are fun and viable but the niche ones are mostly empty. I run a niche hobby community and despite having a few hundred subscribers <5% have ever commented, <0.5% have posted. I think Lemmy needs to be perhaps 5-10x larger than it is now to be self-sustaining for niche communities.
I guess in your case, people are maybe enjoying their summer in hikes and less on their phones/computer he he
I think it’s just okay. I very much wish there were at least 10x as many daily active users.
I think natural growth will be either very slow, or negative, for the time being. But I also think future “events” will probably end up being more effective - because with each new influx of users Lemmy will be more mature as a platform, and have a larger pre-existing userbase to fill it with content that isn’t just about Lemmy or reddit - which was so bad when I joined that I nearly quit.
If for an event you refer to something like the Reddit API fiasco then I wonder how many people joined here not because of Reddit, but because looking for social news aggregators.
Maybe some folks come from Mastodon but before Mastodon for me the Fediverse (indeed I just thought it was a selfhosted Twitter and nothing else) was non existent, even when I knew about Lemmy (on Reddit) I didn’t relate it with Mastodon.
I feel my smaller communities aren’t as active as I would like, I suppose the best way to fix this is that we all lurk less and contribute more, that and share fun stuff from here to acquaintances, even through other social media.
I’m fine with how active things are. The most popular community I run (!bluey@lemmy.world ~750 subscribers) is receiving at least a post per day, sometimes up to five.
If another “event” happens, I’m sure we will get busier, but things seem manageable for the two of us so far. I’m not opposed to more traffic, however.
some communities do feel quite active, but I think sports as well as some niche interests could use a boost in activity here
For sports, isn’t it break time? I know it is for european football
Still the Women’s World Cup, Leagues Cup, Asian and South American football! But yeah, !football@lemmy.world is sadly inactive.
I guess those three unfortunately don’t engage people that much.
Let’s see how it goes in September
Dam that’s small the linux places i hang are thousands strong. Goes to show who uses lemmy
I usually always assume people here to be at least familiar with Linux
I hope they would find a way to minimize fragmantation, instead of having one well maintained (lest’s say) ABC community we now have an ABC community per instance (abc@lemmy.world, abc@lemmy.ml, abc@kbin,…) with one half active and the rest barely kicking off with mostly copy/paste content from other similar communities.
It will probably take a big exodus from Twitter or reddit
Some places seem to be gaining more members though. Maybe the current users are searching more.
Natural effect of people looking for content and converging to some communities
I wish more people were interested in association football.
To be fair, we are in the off-season. Perhaps activity will increase when the major European Leagues kick off.
