“For the purpose of whatever’s about to happen next, yes we’re friends”
We need to remove some of the links from the fediverse logo to show all the defederations
What’s the symbol on the left?
The Fediverse / ActivityPub. The thing Lemmy is part of, where you’re currently in.
Wait where am I? I took a left turn awhile back. Went past some Marxists and Linux users and ended up here.
You’re part of a very, very large international polycule.
Ahhh thanks. I’m still very new to all this.
Welcome and enjoy!
Fediverse.
Ty
Sadly, I think Fedi made the bridge.
FALSE
Nobody uses Lemmy for anyone to care to ask
Fedi is also mastodon, and many others
Like I said, nobody gives a shit about the Fediverse
We do!
I’m really sorry but “We” being you and your mum don’t count, that still counts as nobody I’m afraid
And yet here you are, replying
I don’t know what to say, congrats:
✅ you have eyes
@[email protected] You must be a lot of fun at parties!
I’ll have you know I’m very fun at parties 🫥
Oh I’m sure! Nothing gets a lively conversation going like ice cold cynicism and negativity.
We’re here because we believe in the Fediverse as a valid alternative to big tech social media and all right-wing propaganda that results from it. I try to convince people of that, and hopefully this place will slowly grow. That requires looking at the future, and not to dwell on what’s not going perfect right now.
This is factually false.
Provide evidence to show anyone outside of the fediverse is interested in the fediverse and bluesky
Counterpoint: provide evidence that anyone outside of Reddit is interested in Reddit and Twitter. If they were interested they would be using it
They are?
Reddit has over 1 billion monthly active users (MAU).
Twitter (X) has 557 million monthly active users (MAU).
Lemmy world fediverse clusterfuck has like 7 users
Looks like about 10% growth compared to last year (
15,563,000 -> 17,416,000), so not a huge increase, but still something. Though it is extremely hard to count fedi users. This site has a good explanation of the caveats.https://fediview.com/articles/fediverse-in-numbers-mastodon-stats-2026/
This looks like growth to you?
Compared to same time last year; yes.
It’s kind of cool to see the Reddit refugee influxes on the graph like that though. Not everyone will stay, but many did.
