• Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’m absolutely fine with 1.5 million. I enjoy lemmy much more than reddit. I feel like content and conversations here are better. None of the karma farming and corporate promotion disguised as natural content.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Although you’re correct, I find fediverse lacking in the department of the more niche stuff, e.g. fandoms of specific games, communities by geo proximity, obscure hobbies.

        But well, Reddit wasn’t like this from the start and I hope the diversity and smaller communities will be here instead of there with time.

        • triclops6@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Former r/fountainpens Reddit refugee here, and I agree 1.5m users doesn’t generate the kind of traffic for my hobby to figure in any sort of way. I miss the engagement

  • N-E-N@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Why this many people use Snapchat is incomprehensible

    There are so many good messenger apps and all of them, Snapchat’s giant userbase remains

  • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I was reading the Wikipedia page linked just an hour ago.
    and I was surprised to see over a billion daily users on Facebook. I used to think at best that’d be in millions.

    I understand now that what do people mean when they day social media’s amplification of a certain message can have great impact. I used to take it lightly, partly because I an totally detached to any of these big platforms.

    and being on Lemmy is a wholly different experience.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    I’m surprised that the fediverse is as popular as it is, I would’ve guessed <500k. That’s awesome. I’m also shocked that Threads is apparently that popular, I completely forgot it existed immediately after it launched. I also didn’t know that Snapchat still existed, so maybe I’m just out of touch on social media stuff.

  • MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m surprised Reddit is bigger than Xitter. Is that mostly because people have been leaving the Musk project in recent years?

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.

      It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.