Discuit is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)
Lemmy has 48k monthly active users (mau): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Mbin has 862 mau: https://mbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Piefed has 133 mau: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
On Tildes site, I counted around 25 posts per day: https://tildes.net/?order=new
We can see that federation was indeed a better solution, looking at the difference in number of Discuit and Tildes (not federated) vs Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed
48k? That’s it??? No wonder this place is so dead.
Also, what’s a mau?
I see new content every day, and that is after blocking a lot of instances that aren’t relevant to my taste. I don’t think this place is dead, it just needs more of those 48k to contribute.
I don’t click on the comments section if they have no comments. I am on here so often it could be described not as monthly, not as weekly, not as daily, not as hourly, but as minutely.
So I wake up, I see about 60 stories…and maybe 45 of them have comments. Ok. I have content for about an hour. I blocked I think 4 users? I’ve not blocked any communities, and I haven’t personally defederated from any instances, but I do reside on Lemmy.World which does defederate from quite a few communities.
Is 60 stories for your Subscribed or Local feed?
Subscribed. And I just counted, I’m subscribed to 161 different communities. And despite only subscribing to ONE political sub, my feed is mostly dominated by political stories.
Subscribed for me, doesn’t look THAT different from All. Except All has porn, and linux.
monthly active user
Imagine what it would be with 245 weekly active users
We need millions of minutely active users. People who work boring jobs, and just spend all day on Lemmy, talking trash about reddit, and all agreeing that George Clooney is a smug bastard.
George Clooney is a smug bastard
That’s oddly specific
Have you not come across any of the multiple comments I’ve made exactly like this?
George Clooney doesn’t ring any bell
It’s an Egyptian cat.
What is this thing and who is supposed to care? It looks sort of like Mastodon: is it related?
It is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)
The message conveyed is that federation was indeed a better solution, looking at the difference in number of Discuit vs Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed
Tildes is many years old, founded by a former mod who did a lot of good work to clean up and grow /r/games like 12 years ago and eventually got hired by reddit, then left to start tildes.
Indeed, but it still seems very quiet
