Noice!
Hope it continues and that it’s not all bots and multiple accounts.
Isnt kbin also lemmy? Why the destinction?
No. Kbin is it’s own seperate project and software https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin
I think the problem is people say lemmy when they mean either. My cheat sheet.
Fediverse: a family of applications that are able to communicate with each other and provide various facilities.
Threadiverse: subset of the fediverse, any federated program providing content aggregation / forum facilities.
Lemmy: the main established application in the genre. Providing a primarily content aggregation and forum redditesque experience.
Kbin: newer project providing the news aggregation and forum features but also micro logging that works with mastadon.
Others I don’t know about but do exist.
ITT hipsters
Kbin doesn’t seem to track active users. Their total users are the same as their active users.
That’s a good amount but I’m curious what the longterm retention will be like. Speaking for myself I’m here to stay, and am hopeful that with time some of the more niche communities come into existence and thrive.
Just need to add more users than we lose. Lots of good things ahead, I see a bright future here.
Life is good when you try something new and realize just how annoying it was dealing with ads and fighting against a shitty algorithm.
No more of this ‘He Gets Us’ bullshit.
Oh shit, I had forgotten about “He Gets Us”… Thanks, I guess
I lost track of how many times I tried to block advertising accounts on there, but eventually gave up because blocking them just doesn’t fucking work. So glad to be done with that rotten platform now
The “He Gets Us” ad must be the most derisive ad hosted on Reddit. Nothing but complaints about it.
It was infuriating.
If I wanted to be preached to I’d subject myself to that nonsense.
Wait, I’m just a casual. Did he post an ad saying “he gets us”?! What a tool.
Did he go to Trump’s business school or something?
It was a stupid religious thing. He Gets Us is a campaign by Christian people, the annoying type that stand on street corners, not the kind that just do their thing and leave everyone else alone.
He get sus
So guys we did it, we reached a half of a million subscribers!
I’m looking forward to the niche communities being active. Some of them are starting to pick up a bit.
I’m looking forward to more beans.
Coffee beans over a c/coffee or c/espresso
All in all, I would like to have a bit less circlejerk and start having more diverse content.
Don’t get me wrong, all the beans and old memes is helping a lot with keeping the platform alive and with constant activity, but I think at some point we need to start posting more stuff and make Lemmy more friendly and attractive to newcomers.
Here you go.
We keep hitting milestones!
Excellent news
How many on Lemmy alone ? BTW what’s kbin? Is it like another instance?
Kbin is completely different from Lemmy, in that it is not Lemmy. It’s like a mix of Mastodon and Lemmy.
And are we using/seeing/editing kbin content from our Lemmy instances? Or it’s isolated from us? (Like Reddit)
Kbin and Lemmy federate with each other. In fact, I’m talking to you from a kbin instance right now!
This will be weird when different people will start using the same username in different instances.
I’m here on lemmy.world but what’s kbin? I didn’t know about whatever that is.
It’s a site that is part of the fediverse, but is not a lemmy instance. It looks different, but it can communicate with all other lemmy instances.
It’s another site in fediverse. It’s a link aggregator like Lemmy is. I’m replying to your comment from @kbin.social :)
Just FYI, some people have two accounts, one on Lemmy and one on Kbin, so some of these numbers may be duplicates.
I have 4 accounts. Most probably have at least 2, one for nsfw
The active user count is much more accurate.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number of users was half, or even a third of that.
I have four accounts.
To my knowledge there’s also no way of identifying bot accounts unless they proactively self identify so these numbers don’t don’t mean much
Monthly Active Users is the stat to track
Yeah, I wish posts would straight up not mention the total number of accounts. It’s not something to brag about. A significant number of the difference between active vs total is gonna be bots. Especially since we’re so new. If active is monthly, then active would include almost anyone who has actually used their account.
The active users count is probably inflated for a bit, too, due to people making multiple accounts as they switch instances or try new ones out. e.g., I used a kbin account early on before switching to try Lemmy. I also have a Beehaw account that was actually the very first one I signed up for and gave up on because of the manual approval taking too long, yet I think I may have posted at least one comment cause I used it to try Lemmy first, then switched to an instance that had downvotes and didn’t defederate as many instances. So I’m counted for probably triple. On the long run, I’ll probably end up using just one of these accounts, but that would depend on features. I switched to Lemmy because of the features it had and if kbin gets better, I might switch back.
EDIT: oh, right, and then there’s also porn accounts. The way Lemmy works makes you almost surely want a separate account for the porn instances. It’s easiest to browse those instances by local posts, but that requires you make an account there (it also won’t show NSFW without an account, which is a silly barrier that is just going to hurt adoption). As well, voting is public, so if you want to privately vote on NSFW stuff, you should use a separate account. By comparison, on reddit, as long as you didn’t intend to post or comment, there was no reason to use a separate account for Porn.
Eh, I personally took the route of becoming comfortable with my consumption of pornographic material. Who cares if someone sees, it’s not like your putting identifying info all over your account, right? And the sort of person who’d take the effort to try and use the things I like against me are hardly the sort to have opinions valuable enough to concern myself with.
Admitting to my porn account, I primarily just wanted to browse
localon the porn instance and not bother with waiting for someone else on beehaw or slrpnk to subscribe to a porn community
Amazing to see, as I look further into these platforms such as Lemmy and Mastodon I love them more and more as they seem to be so much more freeing than current mainstream platforms on the market.
🐭🤝📂
Your name is full of red flags
same for the posts and comments.
I love you
