Fediverse

Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

Welcome all you noobs

(don't hit me, I just got here too)

once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.

Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.

I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.

My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.

There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)

I'm one of them. Hello!

Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.

Me here, fuck u/spez🖕

Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.

thats good

Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.

I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.

Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.

I sincerely doubt this is anywhere close to actual usage and pushing flawed metrics like this is going to do more harm than good.

Yesterday the Fediverse Observer list had a couple dozen instances with 20k+ users with no federated communities, single-digit subscriptions to local communities, single digit posts and comments by 1 or 2 accounts.