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    I don’t care about “number go up”.
    Lemmy now has enough users to provide plenty of content, and really interesting new communities I’ve never seen on that other website are starting to pop up.
    It also has its own memes and culture already.

    You don’t have 1000 comments under every meme post, but the comments that are there are usually worth reading.
    It’s not a reddit replacement - it’s much better.

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        Fair, but I do like seeing the federated model thrive and prove itself as a viable alternative to main stream social media. My utopian dream would be that profit driven internet would fall apart against what we have. I hate how much power is given to so few.

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    I really hate graphs that start at 99% and top off at 100%

    The gain is really next to nothing in the 2 months shown in this graph. It goes from ~1,456,000 to 1,468,000… which is a 00.8% increase, less than 1%.

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      Yep we’re gaining 1’000 new accounts every couple days, maybe every week. Which is pretty cool given we have an average of 40’000 active users. But nothing compared to the total of 1.5 million accounts. The vast vast vast majority of which are dead. Made one year ago to check out lemmy and never came back.

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        There’s also lots of people who made an account in multiple instances before realizing that you don’t have to do that

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          Or people like me who keep on switching instances because they want to find the perfect one that blocks everything they don’t like and federates with everything they like.

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            Can’t users just block entire instances themselves now? So the trick would be to join one that broadly follows your interests and cut down as required.

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    I started using lemmy because of the reddit api fiasco and the platform really feels more alive now. Or maybe the bots got smarter.

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      As an AI language model, I fully agree with your last point.

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        Sure! I can find agreement between AI language models and actual users of lemmy decentralized communication systems with your last two points…

        To find agreement with your last two points, AI language models would need to agree with both of your last two points.

        First, AI language models would have to agree with your first point.

        Next, AI language models would have to agree with your second and last point.

        In summary you would need AI language models to agree independently to each of your two different points so that it can agree to both.

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    Data is ugly, why would you write complete ISO format dates ob the x axis? Can’t read shit on a mobile device.

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    I like lemmy. I spend maybe an hour a day scrolling so enough content. i am happy there isnt more cuz i would spend more time here then.

    Only thing missing is a lot of niches in all kind of categories, be that gaming specific subs or what the internet is rly made for.

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    Are we sure it’s counting 1.5 M users and not 1.5 M memes posted by picard, pug, and squid?

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      I don’t think lemmy would be what it is without the contributions of any one of these three- let alone all of them.

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      Just wouldn’t want any newcomers to the history communities to up and think the place was dead! Lemmy cannot live on Linux alone 🙏

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          No, I’m part metal. Helps to keep going longer than mere organics, but getting through the airport is a bitch.

          More seriously, I take 2-4 times a day to grab some pics from my stashes and post them real quick on my regular communities. Takes maybe 15 minutes each time. 60 minutes every day is a good chunk, but it’s far from grueling.

          Now, my FOMO causing me to check my notifications every moment I get free time? That’s a little more grotesque.

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          I answer on AskHistorians, but don’t post there. But I’d love to see activity there too! Mostly I run three history meme communities (HistoryMemes, RoughRomanMemes, and ShermanPosting), and four communities for sharing historical images of interest (HistoryPorn [not my choice of name, it’s just for photos], HistoryIllustrations, HistoryRuins, and HistoryArtifacts)

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    It’s amazing to me just how hassle-free it is to use Lemmy as opposed to reddit.

    Rddit just feels like it’s actively trying to get you to leave it.

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      Reddit is like the late Roman Empire. It looks fine on the outside, but it’s corrupt all the way down, powered by unpaid labor, and the lead pipes are slowly killing everyone.

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        No, no, the pipes are fine (mostly). They have calcium buildup that prevents lead leeching.

        The REAL major source of lead poisoning in the Empire is much stupider - knowingly making wine syrup in lead pots because the lead makes it taste sweeter. Despite knowing that lead is toxic af.

        There’s probably an apt comparison in that to Reddit as well.

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      The latest annoyance is that they will AI-translate posts and stick those into search engines.

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      Bad moderation is still an issue here. Like allowing people posting pictures of text or low effort meme content on comms that aren’t for memes

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      Interesting. May I ask how?

      Because with old.reddit and RES it really doesn’t feel much different (apart from the vibes in the communities)

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        Yeah, old.reddit is like a dam for users that will flow with the fediverse sooner or later.

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        How is that you can no longer use any of the third-party apps that used to make it a good experience, and also everything you say and do on the website is being sold to data-hoarders to power AI.