Not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of new users to the fediverse.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Usage share among the various fediverse apps. That is, taken as a whole how much of the fediverse is Mastodon. This is the first time [ever?] it dropped below 70%.

      • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        but mastodon is not the same type of app as Lemmy ? why would they be compared? are they being compared? I’m just guessing because it’s all cropped away

        • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
          161·
          2 days ago

          Well, see, Mastodon has had a functional monopoly on ActivityPub usage, and also Mastodon users are able to and do engage with Lemmy communities. Mastodon’s share of AP usage going down is of interest because the fediverse has a monoculture issue, and that’s a thing people on a forum like this one should keep in mind.

        • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          What’s missing is that Pixelfed shot up in usage this week with it’s official app releases on Apple and Google app stores. It at one point surpassed Facebook and Instagram in the top 10 on Apple I think. That surge was enough to reduce Mastodon’s usage to under 70%. I think Pixelfed monthly active users is now like twice that of Lemmy.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1092·
    2 days ago

    What am I looking at exactly? I see a cropped image, and mastodon is under 70%. Based on an educated guess and nothing more, I’m going to guess what you’re trying to convay is that in the pie that represents the total fediverse, mastodon used to account for more than 70%, and now smaller services are growing. So mastodons total pie share shrinks, as the pie grows in other areas.

    Is that about what you’re trying to say? Or am I way off?

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    Surprising to me that Lemmy is only at 4.3%, it definitely feels very active to me.

    • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      67·
      2 days ago

      It’s incredibly active. It’s not gigagigant size, like masto, but it has a userbase large enough to survive for many years without an infusion. Reddit is still censoring lemmy sites, in case anyone else is curious

      • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        2 days ago

        People forget web forums were way smaller than lemmy and ran just fine and were very active. Lemmy has a very different use case to mastodon. Since you don’t need individuals to latch onto. We are having a discussion on lemmy as equals around a topic not followers of a person like how a Micoblog is designed to be.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          Even many regional message boards or forums we’re very active. Boards.ie in Ireland was the nerds internet forum. A fediverse before there was one. It was the go to for info about anything tech related or internet culture. Whirlpool in Australia is still the go to for info about internet and broadband, and is still active, if much reduced.

      • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        Reddit is still censoring lemmy sites, in case anyone else is curious

        Wow, really? That is hilarious

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      181·
      2 days ago

      Its wild to me how active lemmy feels compared to mastodon. I told my normie friends about it when I found out about it during the migration and they insisted that it would die and recently I was able to update them and say its still going strong and its got its own unique vibe that feels different from reddit.

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        2 days ago

        It’s because you can actually have discussions on Lemmy, whereas microblogging like mastodon is just “old man shouts at cloud” multiplied by 2 million people. I never understood the appeal.

        • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Not getting this experience on Mastodon. I hopped on after Lemmy, but so far I’ve had several positive back and forths with people.

    • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      This is looking at total users, but I think monthly active users would be a better stat to use here. Lemmy has about 3 times the MAU of Misskey.

      Edit: Also worth noting that Pixelfed has close to 3 times Lemmy’s MAU now.

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Good, more software diversity is always good. We shouldn’t all just use a single software.

  • fu@libranet.de
    6·
    2 days ago

    I know this is pointing at percentages, but those numbers are still way off from whatever else I was just looking at earlier today. Like they had lemmy #2, Pixelfed #3 and loops, whatever the hell that is, at like #5. Here on the best Fedi platform, friendica, they said there were just over 2,000 active users, making loops already at 6 times larger than us. I still think we need to get ready because someday the facebook migration will come and boy howdy.