Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.
Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.
I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.
Hey everyone! I’m curious about the number of communities on Lemmy and the activity levels within them. Specifically, is there a reliable source where I can check the total number of communities and the average number of posts per month? It seems like the number of communities might be quite high, but I wonder how low the post activity is across most of them. Any insights or links to resources would be greatly appreciated!
What is Sharkey? A fork of Misskey, which I also don’t know. I imagine Sharkey does much the same things as Lemmy? It is almost as large, and seems to have grown rather quickly.
Is there someone who can provide background for these?
And why is Mastodon so huge? Are they including Threads as a part of it?
No Sharkey/Misskey is more like Mastodon, but with more playful features like emoji reactions and animated text.
Threads is not included, but Mastodon had a lot more Twitter refugees.
Misskey and Sharkey are micro blogging platforms, more similar to Mastodon and Twitter rather than Lemmy.
Mastodon is much older than Lemmy. Not sure if they count Threads
Threads allegedly has 100’s of millions of users, plus it’s not even federated with Mastodon. There’s no way that Threads users are counted in the Mastodon statistics