Basically, it’s like a different version of lemmy that can federate.

Maybe that’s cos it’s doubly sweet now?

was there even an official app or plans to make one? I think this is a popular opinion.

Pshaw, true old-school folks know about the 3 days of noshitpost.

My take on it is - you know your platform has made it when bad actors actually care enough to try and poke your system.

My own rule of thumb is - I’m going to lurk on reddit if I need to, but I’m only going to participate in lemmy and whatever other platforms I support. It’s undeniable that reddit still has a treasure trove of information.

Adding to that: there is no need to go into detail about the fediverse and how it connects to other instances and mastodon and all that.

For a newcomer, the most important thing is to get their feet wet. Introduce them to ONE instance. kbin.social and lemmy.world are my favorites to introduce to people because it’s relatively easy to signup and there is a decent amount of content/activity.

Once they’re comfortable poking around, that’s when you start talking about instances.

If you start off by telling them to pick an instance, their eyes are going to glaze over. Pick one for them. If they really prefer another instance, great, they can create a new account when they feel strongly enough about it themselves.

The suburb model is an easy way to give people more land, but it is highly, highly inefficient.

wow those photos look amazing!

Spirit is only good if you treat it like the public bus - cheap, uncomfortable, and will get you there at some point in time if you wait long enough.

It’s never a good idea explaining the whole idea to someone right at the start unless they ask.

I’ve always just directed people straight to a big instance with lots of home communities, like lemmy.world or kbin.social. After they jump in and have questions, that’s the right time to talk about instances, not before.

Thanks! All i can do is try to mention it where I can, and hopefully more people will see this.

I interpreted OP’s post as “the number of users reported on the website is wrong”.

My point is that the number is accurate - there are that many signups - it’s just that a large majority of it are bots. The number is accurate, but it doesn’t mean anything.

I was in no way trying to cheer the fact that we have that many users. Like I said, we probably only have 350-400k actual users. It’s not that the reporting is wrong, it’s the bot sign-ups that are making the number meaningless.

I was unclear in my message, I guess. And you were also very rude.

That’s very true. For example, a general “anime” community would be better, until it gets hard to keep track of what’s on the first page - after which some series could splinter off.

Its hard to get people to agree on this though. And I think the other extreme of not letting people create communities isn’t the best either.

Yes, lemmygrad really is that active. Try going to the instance to poke around and you’ll see. 600 active means 600 people have posted in the last month - like I said, lemmygrad has been around for much, much longer, so there are users who posted and then fell off, so their posts are part of the 230k comments but they don’t make up part of the 600 users.

Also, I don’t think you read my comment properly. What I said was that the numbers are not made up, but there are bot attacks on unsecured instances. Read my previous post again please.

Waltuh

I can see this information on Lemmy without jumping through hoops… Is this meant for kbin users?

That’s true. I first tried to create an account at beehaw but forgot about my application so I ended up on lemmy.world because it had open signups, so there’s at least 1 “useless” user account there.

Seeing how beehaw shut themselves off, things kinda worked out for me lol.

Go on this page, sort by total users and compare to active users.

Yes, I’ve been using this site for tracking too.

lemmygrad.ml has 606 active users and 231752 comments

I’m not sure I understand your point? If you’re saying that the active user : comment ratio for all other instances is off, then I think you got it the wrong way round. lemmygrad was one of the first instances to be developed, way before the reddit exodus, so their number of active users has dropped even as their comment count slowly grew over time.

It’s not bullshit, it’s because of two reasons:

First, “Active last month” refers to users who have posted a comment in the last month. Every site like this has a large number of lurkers. A good rule of thumb is 10% of subscribers/users actually post/comment/participate. So 350-400k “legitimate” users sounds like the right ballpark.

Second, the numbers are so high because there has been a known bot attack. A few instances didn’t have email verification/captchas enabled so it was very easy to sign up for accounts very quickly. Some instances went from 500-800 users, to 10,000 users overnight.