• Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m absolutely fine with 1.5 million. I enjoy lemmy much more than reddit. I feel like content and conversations here are better. None of the karma farming and corporate promotion disguised as natural content.

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        Although you’re correct, I find fediverse lacking in the department of the more niche stuff, e.g. fandoms of specific games, communities by geo proximity, obscure hobbies.

        But well, Reddit wasn’t like this from the start and I hope the diversity and smaller communities will be here instead of there with time.

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          Former r/fountainpens Reddit refugee here, and I agree 1.5m users doesn’t generate the kind of traffic for my hobby to figure in any sort of way. I miss the engagement

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        Not always

        Lemmy still doesn’t create enough content that I want

        But I try to use lemmy more anyways

        Hopefully more people will use lemmy more

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          Here too there are misconceptions!

          What’s important are the hard numbers, soft metrics like user count are misleading! Some may look large at first, but hardly grow with higher engagement, while in others engagement greatly increases the size.

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            True. Related to that I wish there were more engagement on lemmy. Most of the posts in my stream have zero replies or 1 and it’s the bot. But let’s keep smaller numbers - quality over quantity.

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    There’s no way reddit has more “real” users than Twitter // X. Maybe with bots but half the shit on reddit is a Twitter screen cap or repost.

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      That’s a strange read on Reddit. I’ve heard people say this before, and it’s baffling.

      Reddit is, and always has been, a link aggregator first and foremost. Of course it’s reposts and screenshots of others sites. That’s kind of the point. To bring you Twitter so you don’t have to actually be on twitter.

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    Why this many people use Snapchat is incomprehensible

    There are so many good messenger apps and all of them, Snapchat’s giant userbase remains

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      I use it for the same reason I use anything, the people I talk with are there. I already drew a hard line in the sand with some devices and Windows.

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        Snapchat is a line I drew. It’s probably my single least favourite messaging option

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    I’m happy with this. I feel like Lemmy is an oasis of nerds in a social media world of toxic people obsessed with all the wrong things.

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    So Facebook is:

    Boring Full of bots Soulless

    An we are:

    Real people mostly Engaged A cute little dot!

    Like someone said, 1,5M people are enough for me, specially if they are mostly active and it seems they are. Are they stats for mean user activity?

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    I’m surprised that the fediverse is as popular as it is, I would’ve guessed <500k. That’s awesome. I’m also shocked that Threads is apparently that popular, I completely forgot it existed immediately after it launched. I also didn’t know that Snapchat still existed, so maybe I’m just out of touch on social media stuff.

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      Facebook forgot it existed too, they just recently made it possible to delete threads accounts without deleting Instagram

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        Meta realized the same thing we all realized when we came here: userbase entrenchment is significantly more difficult to overcome nowadays than it was back in the 2000s when Facebook managed to pull everyone over from Myspace.

        Legitimately, it seems like the average user nowadays is so hellbent against even a modicum of inconvenience or a slightly less populated environment that they will accept literally anything. The big tech and social media platforms couldn’t shake off users if they tried anymore. They can do every every shitty, anti-user, anti-consumer thing under the sun and users will bitch about it, but never, ever try an alternative.

        And that’s why these companies and their devs don’t listen to feedback anymore. Why bother?

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      I’m just curious what you thought might have happened to Snapchat? What app took its place in your estimation?

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        I think I got Snapchat and Vine mixed up or combined in my head. I’ve never used either one, I thought it shut down years ago, but what I’m remembering is Vine shutting down.

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          Vine was basically TikTok with shorter videos. I feel like it was a bit ahead of its time - phone cameras weren’t as good when it launched, and a lot of people didn’t have enough data to watch a feed full of videos.

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    I’m surprised Reddit is bigger than Xitter. Is that mostly because people have been leaving the Musk project in recent years?

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      As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.

      It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.

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    Since you posted it in a selfhosting community, this is the feeling I get: