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This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!

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[–] liwott@nerdica.net 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Makes me wonder just how many are active users

MAU means "monthly active users". As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

[–] bunjix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)

[–] mtdyson_01@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I'm still not comfortable with it yet.

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, Mastodon was actually quite nice once I started following hashtags.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

For me, Mastodon is a great metal band.

[–] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what were some things you found hard to get used to about Mastodon?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Finding interesting things to follow.

I'm not a twitter user, and also I thought that you'd find groups with whom you'd share, but instead I only found accounts telling me news I already knew. Roughly.

For me I'll check out my account from time to time for the FOSS stuff, but I could probably just hang out somewhere else (IDK where though :-)

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, until the Reddit exodus settles down after the July 1 massive wave, it is not sensible to evaluate Mastodon vs Lemmy MAU numbers.