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  • That's nice. Hopefully thanks to this outcome. More niche hobbyist community's will appear on lemmy And hopefully less auth left tankies I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world's the oyster. There's a million hobbies out there I would hope there's a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies

    • Lemmy hasn't really gotten over the fragmentation of communities. There are multiple gaming subs, some have double digit users, some have thousands. That shit needs to be consolidated.

    • I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world’s the oyster. There’s a million hobbies out there I would hope there’s a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies

      Be the change you want to see - share interesting posts, start communities if you see a niche, etc.

  • People have to be willing to give things a try, so I think it will definitely grow. I was never a Reddit user, I tried this on a whim, just to try and have conversations with different people. The one good thing is that there are many functional apps, and you will only see things you are interested in, and when you don't, you down vote it.

    But ultimately it's still the same echo chamber that all social media is, but without ads.

    • Don't downvote stuff just because you're not interested in it! There's no algorithm you're training, you're just being rude to people.

      Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

    • All social media, and irl too, has biases. As we do ofc - e.g. we linux Linux, especially Arch btw:-P - but it seems to me that the Fediverse is fundamentally different, b/c of the nature of consent.

      On Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, and Reddit now that it is acting more like the former, ThE aLgOrItHm makes choices for you, whereas here if you want to create an echo chamber, you have to put in a LOT of effort to ensure that you are never exposed to anything that you would disagree with.

      For one thing, you would have to subscribe to communities first, and those would have to have enough content to hold your interest, which means a continual search for more of such communities. Scrolling through the All feed would absolutely be prohibited if you wanted to make an echo chamber for yourself.

      Again, literally every social media platform has biases, but here those do not rise to the level of "echo chamber", imho? I do concede that it is not entirely unlike one of those, and yet on the spectrum, aren't we far less than most other common platforms?

      • I think it's really easy to make an echo chamber here, make a community and only follow said community? I enjoy Lemmy, because look,we are having legitimate conversations, but some posts I have come across - it's like no conversation, just putting down an opposite point of view.

        Me personally, I do my best to try and avoid the political stuff, but even that is difficult at times.

        But yes, subscribe to the communities and if the content is there, great, if not, make some or help promote it.

  • The increase in monthly is just mainly replacing users leaving as the active 6 month seems to be going down the same rate as active monthly is going up. Am I reading that correctly?

    Total users doesn't concern me too badly, as I'm more happy to see daily post and comment counts going up. I feel activity needs to be our focus rather than headcount. A packed stadium is kinda pointless if nobody is on stage putting on the show! 😁

    • The increase in monthly is just mainly replacing users leaving as the active 6 month seems to be going down the same rate as active monthly is going up. Am I reading that correctly?

      Yeah. But the active 6 month is a lagging indicator because it tracks users who became inactive 6 months ago. While the increase in monthly active users is tracking users joining right now. If the increase of monthly active users is sustained for a few months, it'll reverse the 6 month trend as well.

      Totally agree that it's ultimately about activity, but the reality is that we need more users to have more activity. I always took for granted the sheer scale of reddit until I joined Lemmy. It takes a massive number of people to sustain continuous 24/7 discussion about a wide variety of topics, which is ultimately what this kind of link aggregator/forum strives to do. And Lemmy users are already really active compared to redditors. There just aren't enough of us yet.

      • I try to put a lot of emphasis on encouraging new posters and commenters. I don't get why you'd come to the "wild west" of social media to just be solely a lurker. You should want to be an explorer and a settler, forging that new frontier. I won't hate on the lurkers, they will always be the majority, but why deal with the quirk, less ease of use, and less content to not want to help shape what it becomes?

        I came over intending to lurk, hence my crap username, but what I wanted wasn't here, but I didnt want to crawl back to Reddit, so I started building, and it's great. People are friendly, you have less competition for attention, and the userbase is largely supportive of whatever you do because you're doing something.

        But ultimately, as long as we arent on an extended downswing, we're doing well. I'll keep making posts and giving positive feedback, so hopefully it keeps catching new people with the bug to interact.

  • So many Mastodon server, crazy. The Lemmy experience is so much better than Mastodon, strange that this is the major draw. Is it because of Meta?

  • Still hang around both. But I've noticed I've had more to engage with on Lemmy lately, which is great.

  • What’s a “green server”?

    • I'd assumed it was servers running on renewable power, although I'm not sure how they measure that. I know some hosting companies and CDNs have that as an option, but I don't see how you'd know if each server chose that option so I guess it's more like "servers with green hosting companies".

  • So there's 5 million new posts per day, or posts total? Assuming the latter except the sudden drop in #s is a little weird.

  • I would like to see a participation per capita breakdown. IOW who posts the most per person relative to the number of participants. Edit: by country and community.

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