Progress is forward, not backward.

Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it's bothering them too.

I'm with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can't get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it's like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don't want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).

I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?

Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadn't been ready and waiting?

This is what you wrote:

[https://fediverse.observer/stats]()
[https://fedidb.org/]()

You need to put the URLs between the parentheses instead. Or simply just paste the URLs directly without any markdown.

Working links:

https://fediverse.observer/stats

https://fedidb.org/

end of an era

... is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.

It's more accurate to say beginning of a new era where decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can't be put back in the bottle.

Most people don't care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what's convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.

None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.

We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.

It most likely triple counts users like me. I have a Mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account, (all under the same username), but those would be counted as 3 Fediverse accounts. I think the metrics to look at are posts and comments.

Hey, honestly I'm unsure. Though my gut instinct would be that it does include those instances, hadn't considered it.

It's a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it's decentralized and most important of all : it's not big tech.

So.. more than threads then :p

(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling..)