this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2026
628 points (99.1% liked)

Fediverse

44003 readers
296 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

image

https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Total users are huge now.

There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

First fediverse site I encountered was moving train radio, a podcast that cited Israeli war crimes in every horrific detail for hours.

It should be played in every church service in North America every week.

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Hoping it's true, generally when I see posts about how strong and successful something is, it hits like a warning sign that it's struggling / at risk and someone is trying to project growth for attraction / retention.

I assume I'm not the only one with this kind of mental filter. Maybe there's a way to go about it that would get the impression across without ringing that alarm?

Maybe a show don't tell kind of tact? Like "check out all this new content being generated by the influx of users"... or a backhanded thing like "here's how to protect your insrance against recent traffic surges"?

Idk I'm no expert. Hope it's helpful but otherwise just ignore me~

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Idk man, you're kinda right but also like what do we need cheerleaders for. Im gonna show this people and they're gonna sign up because lemmy is growing or something?

Idk just useless information as far as i can tell, theres no ceo of the fediverse trying to maximize growth or whatever so who is this for?

[–] clif@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I am the CEO of the fediverse but I'm struggling. If you send $7 to my account, I will reimburse you $2m when we succeed. My scam coin wallet address is "0", please reply quickly... I can not hold long

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

I wish there was a website that had like three major aggregators instead of just the one. The issue I come across is these sites all have something missing. For the fediverse observer, they sometimes do retro activity that doesn't pop up until you look at the graph again.

What I can tell you anecdotally is i am seeing a lot more engagement with content faces are sticking around last couple of months. So I pulled the numbers from the aggregator that I know at least lets you audit the numbers. But its still not perfect.

[–] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found Lemmy through grapheneos! That's my story. Love it.

If I hadn't smashed my iPhone in a work related accident I would never know the joy of ditching reddit and joining you folks.

Hazzah for happenstance! Life is great!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] TheNameBrand@lemmus.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Me too! And not a bot! Woohoo!

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

And not a bot!

Wonderful! We love human flesh around here!

EDIT: Ok, I'm reading that back and I see how it sounds. Just editing to say we are not cannibals.

EDIT 2: Ok, I know that denying that we are cannibals makes it look even more like we are cannibals, but I promise you we are not

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh shit. Wait, no. It was just a joke. I don't wanna be "cannibal man". Damn... senior year will be really hard for me, won't it? No one will want to sit next to me in the cafeteria. Some kid will be like "I hear he packs his own lunch" and everyone will gasp.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

It's okay Seth, calm down. Being known as "cannibal man" is way better than being known as "fart man" like Pat in homeroom.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm only here because I got IP banned from Reddit for asking when they're going to launch Margery Taylor Greene into the sun.

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm here for the awful post of "when are the guillotines coming?" In reference to the largest child sex trafficking ring ever that's being defended by the US gov.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Was it also in/r/politics and were you "promoting violence"?

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Especially considering what they allowed when I joined in 2012.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

The people reddit is banning is really just sending us their best people. Welcome.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is there anyway to compare bots to real users?

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

Piefed auto-flags users it it thinks is bots and allows users to flag other users as potential AI bots. Its an interesting system. I like it so far but its on a system with less than 10k users. So not sure how the scale is going to work. Still its a step!

[–] sushimi@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Continuing, growing and stronging.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Moisturizing. Focusing. Inourlaneing. Flourishing.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Enlonging, embiggening, and stronging.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
load more comments
view more: next ›