Wow beehaw really took off recently huh?
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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What this doesn't show is active users, just total. For quite some time we've been one of the most active large instances. I don't remember the exact timing, but we've held the spot of 3rd most active for some time, we just now have total users to match that.
It did! Look at us go! Yip-Bee-Kiyay!
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The numbers are still quite low compared to what the activity now feels like. Two weeks ago I could easily read all posts and comments and now I can’t follow the many new posts ^^
I'm being a lot more active here than I was on Reddit. Trying to make sure it feels like a dynamic space for new redfugees :)
For some reason, same. I'm just, like, feel enthusiastic about Fediverse as a whole and Lemmy in particular.
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
I'm feeling the same way, but I suppose we'll soon see.
Even if the reddit exodus doesn't turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.
I’ve got a ton of things to post that are either from my pulled down Reddit posts or stuff I had but never posted. Here, if anything I’m trying to pace my posts so that I don’t drown a community in just my threads.
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50,000 people is a LOT of people. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the millions of users on reddit and other social media sites are either separated and isolated into smaller segments, or even then most people just lurk.
I looked at the participation (active user) rate, it shows above 20% in Beehaw and 7% overall in Lemmy. Normally subreddits of 3,000-6,000 are kind of slow and people post once in a while, most probably lurk.
Here, at least for now it's really buzzing, people get a sense that they can be heard and real conversations are happening.
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
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Yeah, I'm usually just a lurker but Lemmy makes me want to take part of the experience. I really hope that it will take off in the long run.
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
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You just got used to have millions of users on sub, and forgot that tens of thousands of users is a lot. Especially New users, who is going to read and comment a lot, compared to reddit with half of users being, like, not active at all.
Makes sense. A friend of me unfortunately turns Lemmy down because the largest instance has "only" 1.6k users
I’m going to bee honest, the mascot was a big factor in picking this instance for me.
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This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to update it again in the future? I'd love to see what happens an about a month!
Yes, I plan to update it again after the 8th of July.
If you do update the post, maybe consider using an animated line graph. I find those usually show the change over time a lot better, because you see the total history of user count.
I think the bar graphs are really nice to show changes in the top position or when there are a lot of different „participants“ coming and going over the time of the graph.
Anyway, really nice animation. Only wanted to give my 2ct.
Yeehaw Beehaw!
I chose not to sign up on lemmy.ml as it didn’t seem that they were looking to become “big”, and seems more focused on a specific niche. How come they are so popular despite those points?
People see that they have the highest user count and gravitate towards it. Most people don't really get how federation works, so they worry about getting "stuck" on an instance with no one to talk to
I think that it was also influenced by it being the developer's instance (thus kinda had some official-ness to it, combined with the domain name reflecting the name of the service) and people wanting to just give newcomers an easy onboard by directing them straight to a link rather than to join-lemmy where some people get confused about choosing an instance. I had seen it in a few subs on reddit where it was just people putting lemmy.ml rather than join lemmy to give someone alternatives to reddit.
If you imagine you're targeting reddit users looking for an alternative and you already know that some people get confused by choosing instances, you're potentially more influenced to just give them a link to one of the instances. Doesn't really matter where they sign up to an extent since it's all federated, just need to skip them past the part that might confuse them. Then if you're doing that, you're also making it more familiar to things they understand by using a domain that looks official. If you say, "Use Lemmy" and then put "beehaw.org", some might question why it's called Lemmy but the website is beehaw. You don't go to reddit.com but call it Linkit, so it may have seemed better to just use lemmy.ml to tell people to use Lemmy. Of course if you onboard people through join-lemmy then it better contextualizes names of instances that don't have lemmy in them, but I think people were just trying to find ways to spread the word without potentially confusing people with the federation aspect.
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I'm actually quite pleased to see lemmy.ml focus on what they want to focus on rather than being a general purpose instance like mastodon.social. I read their mission statement and they were pretty adamant that they want to see a variety of different instances - and we should! Reminds me of the golden forum days.
Why is lemmygrad so popular?
If I remember my Lemmy history right (someone correct me)....
In the early days of Lemmy, everyone was on one instance (lemmy.ml). The founding Lemmy developers (and their friends, I guess) were tankies. At some point they decided to make Lemmy more attractive to the general population, and make the flagship lemmy.ml less overtly Marxist-Leninist/offputting. So they split lemmy.ml into 2: lemmy.ml for non-commie stuff, and lemmygrad.ml for commie stuff. Since the bulk of Lemmy users in the early days were still tankies (or their friends), they were still generally using both instances very heavily.
The day that lemmygrad.ml ceases to be the #2 instance and becomes just another niche-interest instance is the day we can say Lemmy has truly become mainstream, I think.
All the cancerous social rejects and useful idiots. Wouldn't be surprised ir it's being propped up by Russian/Chinese propaganda machine either. At least I sincerely hope some of the people there are not real.
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Poked my head in to the AMA and it's basically what I expected. To the surprise of no-one Spez is a tool and should go boil his ass.
I spent years on Reddit and somehow didn't realize until today what an unscrupulous person he is. And not only unscrupulous, but downright unprofessional.
We can say what we want about someone like Mark Zuckerberg, but he would never behave in the way that Spez did in that AMA. It's just not befitting of the CEO of a company.
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The answers were infuriating beyond all reason. Like dude... If you're trying to avoid being used for training llms, that's totally reasonable. Nuking all 3P apps is an insane response, fuck off.
Beehaw 🔛🔝
Go beehaw!!
30k users? Doesn't lemmy.ml have around 1k users? Are those visitors numbers?
Or does it include other Fediverse users...
It is the amount of user accounts the instance have.
Yea. If the weekly/monthly user numbers are available, that'd be cool too. Tough to get a clear image during migrations though because signing up and never returning counts, I think, as a weekly/monthly active user in the time window.
Cool animation BTW!!
There are some mastodon accounts/bots that update statistics about mastodon everyday. It would be awesome to do the same thing about lemmy on regular basis, like once per week or month. Awesome.
I really like where this is going. Feels like we're settling a new frontier!
Is there a time-series plot version of this? I always have difficulty really absorbing the data when it is animated like that.
Very cool.
Would love to see this as average active users.
I don't have statistics visual over time, but currently active user ratio is well above average on Beehaw, at roughly 23% compared to 7% overall.
Well done, and pats on the back for keeping it by-and-large civil!
Very interesting! Is there a way to view all the data at once with a line graph? I prefer that over animated bar charts
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