Worth noting is that what counts as an "active user" has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an "active user" was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

Good point

[–] Extras5023@lemm.ee 3 points 51 minutes ago

Let’s gooo

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 32 points 3 hours ago

Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps to not be shit. looking at reddit.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 10 points 2 hours ago

It is really awesome here. Like the good ol internet days.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

I flipping love Lemmy.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Good for Lemmy.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit's desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

[–] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 hour ago

Yeah. Reddit is currently enshitifying in overdrive. They used to just do dumb features nobody wants, but now they are actively harming the base. The entire Luigi over-moderation this is just bad, and it feels like they want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now. and even if I do have to use it, the website often tends to not function properly these days, with the site constantly reloading, or voting functions to be broken. This is the year of lemmy.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The user growth we're seeomg could result in an overwhelming flood of users at anytime. Which is why people should consider supporting the lemmy devs and instance admins either financially or through contributions so that the lemmy software and infrastructure is ready to handle the growth.

[–] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And then in 5-10 years the users will destroy it like everything else on the Internet...

Seriously, though, make me wrong - because this kind of model is so new to me, I don't know, is there anything different about this that will resist it going the way of things that were once good and eventually weren't, like Craigslist and Reddit?

Obviously a lot of Reddit sucks due to how it's run, but let's not overlook that part of its downfall, like with Craigslist, is the users as it grew having no respect for the model. I've been on my way out since well before the API exodus (and yet I was addicted and too lazy until now, that's on me). People posting whatever they want wherever they want and having very little understanding of nuance in language ("oddly satisfying" doesn't just mean "I like this"), misusing downvoting (I know I'm yelling at clouds, but that was where Reddit was doomed from the start to become an echo chamber, and I didn't know if Lemmy is different in that respect - do votes determine visibility here?), moderators becoming more power hungry, and I'm sorry if this is mean, but the userbase trending younger steering content much more to "mah crush, aitah?," fake stories for "points," and I feel the general populace there being more gullible. Not to mention the same comments being made over and over, and I'm not talking about bots, I'm talking about constant "this is the way" and "username checks out."

I've seen so many actual discussions here already that are full of real passion and good points even when they're heated, some lovely user created and has posted around a really through socialist reading list. I've only seen "this is the way" once. Reddit is lazy one-word answers and downvotes. How do we encourage this and discourage that?

Anyway, I rant. This place is great now and will only get better as it grows, but I hope this model will in some way resist that downfall. But I've come to accept that nothing on the Internet is permanent. And also that people are gonna people and if I don't like that, it's on me to leave.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

The difference is the way it is run. You got it. And if one day Midwest.social starts doing things you hate and treating it’s users like crap, then come on over to lemmy.world or lemmy.ca, or one if the other thousands instances.

People hosting the database are not the owners of the platform unlike Reddit. They get to tell us how we can use it just because they host the database.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 44 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

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[–] kane@femboys.biz 31 points 4 hours ago

Makes me happy to see it, a future for a platform that is not locked by a single large player. Instead, I can have my own profile that I actually own and do not “lend”.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 27 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don't lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.

Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it's healthy enough but certainly better than the mastodon ecosystem

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It's mostly because people keep recommending LW instead of other instances.

[–] SendPrudes@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t really understand this on the way in. Is there an explanation somewhere. I found a mobile browser app and it sort of stuck me on one without me being able to select.

I think I’m with lemme ee?

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Anyone can put Lemmy on their website

All the Lemmy websites talk to each other

You went to the website lemm.ee, so you're a lemm.ee user

It's good for the network if people don't all use the same website

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 10 points 3 hours ago

I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.

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