• frozengriever@lemmy.world
    471·
    2 years ago

    Hope this also feeds the growth of Mastodon as well. We need good FOSS alternatives to these corporate controlled social networks.

    • kratoz29@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 years ago

      I might try Mastodon now that I found and fell in love with Lemmy, are there any good clients for Android?

      • cod@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’m on iOS so I can’t say 100% but ivory is really well designed, I’m pretty sure that’s what the Apollo dev said he likes to use so I tried it and it’s good. Personally I’ve been using elk as a web app and it’s been my favourite so far. I don’t think there’s an app for it at the moment, just a web app, but I could be wrong

        • coderade@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’d also recommend Ice Cubes on iOS, visually pleasing and pretty functional. And elk you can install as a half app thing where you click install from the url bar

          • cod@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Just checked out Ice Cubes, pretty neat! Between Ivory, Ice Cubes, and Elk, I don’t know which to use! I’m currently paying for Ivory premium (or whatever they call it) but the other two are completely free to use from what I can tell. I don’t use Mastodon nearly as much as Lemmy anyway (I’d rather follow communities than people, plus I don’t know many accounts that I should follow on mastodon anyway)

      • s4if@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Tusky is a neat Apps for Mastodon. Good for the those who want to start. There also many more like Fedilab, Moshidon, Trunks, Megalodon etc.
        For me though, I use Subway Tooter, this is an advance apps so the UI is rather intimidating.

      • averagedrunk
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m feeling out of place because I’m the only one running Trunks. It’s pretty much doing what I need but I’m a pretty simple drunk.

      • buddhabound@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 years ago

        Fedilab. It costs $2.99 to buy it, but it’s the best and most feature complete right now. Elk is a good client, but it’s web-based (and can be installed as a web app on mobile). But it still has a lot of soul searching to see if it’s trying to be the “Twitter client” of mastadon or not.

        I use them both occasionally, and fedilab is my primary mastodon client right now for lots of reasons.

  • Prometheus@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years ago

    Usualy being a very late adopter (buy stuff last, accept trends last, switch to norms late), I’m very happy I shutdown and deleted everything from my reddit account among the first, when spez bullcrap started, and went elsewhere, I joined squabbles, kbin and lemmy. But I’m here, I like the community, adoption and migration, and seeing the numbers tells me I’m not alone. Which is good.

  • NutWrench
    27·
    2 years ago

    It’s amazing how fast it’s growing. According to Lemmy Explorer, there are nearly 900 Instances, encompassing almost 13,000 communities. The forum software could stand some improvement, like having a way to group all your communities in one place, or figuring out whether an instance is federated. I really like the decentralized aspect of it. If a corporation tries to take over and ruin the largest instance (like what’s happening to Reddit), then folks can migrate over the the second-most popular instance(s) while the biggest one withers and dies.

    Also, Mastodon looks like a great replacement for Twitter.

  • Odo@startrek.website
    23·
    2 years ago

    Some small instances are seeing sudden increases in numbers of registered users (4k to 5k new users) but not an equivalent growth in activity, my guess is someone is creating accounts on instances without captcha enabled for account registration. Most of the top 10 fastest growing instances shown here fit that criteria.

    • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
      9·
      2 years ago

      @Odo Interesting. Lemmy is somewhat strict in its definition of “active user”. You must post to be “active”, so all lurkers aren’t counted.

      I’m not even sure commenting counts toward being “active”, though I’d guess it does.

      So user growth without growth in “active users”, especially on smaller servers, is plausible.

    • YellowGas@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 years ago

      The Sync for Reddit dev just announced that Sync for Lemmy is going to be developed. Sync for Reddit is one of the very high quality 3rd party reddit apps that will be shutdown later this month. So you’ve got that to look forward to.

    • Cyclohexane
      6·
      2 years ago

      Try migrating to a smaller instance if you’re on a big one. The fediverse is not meant to be all in one giant instance anyways.

  • mbryson@lemmy.ca
    14·
    2 years ago

    Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.

    • liwott@nerdica.net
      14·
      2 years ago

      Makes me wonder just how many are active users

      MAU means “monthly active users”. As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

      • mtdyson_01
        4·
        2 years ago

        For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I’m still not comfortable with it yet.

          • Valmond
            1·
            2 years ago

            Finding interesting things to follow.

            I’m not a twitter user, and also I thought that you’d find groups with whom you’d share, but instead I only found accounts telling me news I already knew. Roughly.

            For me I’ll check out my account from time to time for the FOSS stuff, but I could probably just hang out somewhere else (IDK where though :-)

              • Valmond
                1·
                2 years ago

                I could search for hashtags, and follow any result I found but maybe/probably couldn’t follow.

                I don’t know if I would have thought following a hashtag would have been wise though, I mean the spam potential is enormous no?

      • bunjix@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Uhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?

        • Valmond
          2·
          2 years ago

          They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)

      • Valmond
        2·
        2 years ago

        Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.

        I’m not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.

        • Liempong_pagong
          1·
          2 years ago

          I tried Twitter long long ago. I did not enjoy it. I tried Mastodon. And strangely I understand it better than I understand Twitter.

          Weird I know. And I can’t explain it.

    • estelle4565@masto.nu
      5·
      2 years ago

      @mbryson @maegul
      According to the CEO of Mastodon last time I chatted with him, the software tracks log-ins, so people like me, who do not log out and in again, would be invisible. So I would say with a certain level of confidence that those are active users you are seeing. Unless he changed the code of course, but it did not seem to be high on his ToDo list.

  • iSharted@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    2 years ago

    Not sure if I should just make a post for this, but I will ask here.

    Is lemmy searchable? The main appeal of reddit for me was searchability. I see a lot of different instances with different domains names.Maybe there is a meta search or something? Adding reddit to the end of a search was very convenient.

    • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      @iSharted

      Interesting question!

      Lemmy has a search facility (a magnifying glass icon, generally in the top right, or perhaps behind a menu).

      And it’s not bad, though rough around the edges I’d say.

      It will only be specific to what your instance “can see”, which is all the activity in all the communities that all its users subscribe to.

      So, no “meta search”. But it’s an interesting idea given how it was part of Reddit’s value.

      No reason why one couldn’t be made on top of the network though

    • renlok
      8·
      2 years ago

      Well they’re two completely different things, mastadon I am ideal replacement for twitter

      • vamp07@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        I was able to figure out what my options were much more quickly. The UI of Kbin seems very sparse. If it offers similar functionality, it is not obvious. Also, I don’t like combining “magazines” with “microblog”. It seems like it wants to be all things to all people.

        • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
          0·
          2 years ago

          @vamp07 Yea, I agree, I think the combination done in kbin will be what some people want while others will prefer the relative focus and simplicity of lemmy.

          • vamp07@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m all for having choices. The thing about Kbin is that when I first land on the page I can’t even figure out how to limit what I see to only what I am subscribed to. Maybe I need to spend more time, but that level of filtering or choice seems well hidden.

  • Crabhands
    10·
    2 years ago

    My bad, i created 6 user accounts until i figured out how this thing works.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    10·
    2 years ago

    Love to see the fediverse grow. We don’t deserve these devs!