• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    It is very clear that new content per day has been steadily increasing the past 14 days.

    Lemmy is no longer just promising, it is already good. With signs of getting even better.

    With more active users, more niche communities should soon be able to do fine too.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I already didn’t read past the first few hundred comments on reddit- Lemmy already feels almost as good to use, way more than mastodon did coming from Twitter.

      • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

    • like47ninjas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Oh so lurkers aren’t counted as active? That’s even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    So active users doesn’t include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that’s even more impressive.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I think it shows that the great migration from Reddit is actually happening. After the 1st of July, we can expect to see Lemmy growing even more since the changes on Reddit are gonna be in full effect.

    • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I imagine the devs and admins here are looking at it as a bit of a deadline of sorts. It’s going to be a big bump in traffic, best to have as much as you can in place.

      If you can have useable app out by then, you’ll get a big sudden surge in interest. It’s just a really nice opportunity for an aspiring dev.

    • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is great and exciting news, but we do need to keep things in perspective. Jumping to almost 48,000 daily active users is great, but Reddit has about 55 million. That’s essentially a rounding error as far as Reddit is concerned.

      • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        People keep wishing death upon Reddit. I understand the emotion, but I wish Reddit a long life. Let it be the grease trap for doomscrollers, reposters, and political and corporate infiltration. I don’t want millions of people to join Lemmy. I want the mythical 1% active content creators to jump ship.

        • hydra@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, Reddit and 4chan can be containment cesspits while quality discussion moves to Fedi.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I don’t really see a problem with this. We already have enough that I can comment an engage with people. I can already ask a question and have 50 people give genuine thought out responses.

        That’s enough for me.

        We’re only on v0.18, some are not going to want a less refine product and that’s okay. We’re here building the momentum for when it’s read for them.

        • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t disagree necessarily, I just think anyone expecting a mass migration should temper their expectations.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m really trying, the main thing I miss is the amount of content and the general navigability of reddit. Finding new subs was so easy and lemmy feels harder to just browse imo. I’ve moved to the lemmy RSS and deleted my reddit bookmarks to help keep me from going there out of weakness though.

      We’ll see to what degree the migration stays/works. I would be very happy to see some competition in this space.

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.

    100% honestly, I’m not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it’s interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances’ content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Even if you do nothing else, make sure to upvote content and comments, and subscribe to communities. Bringing content over from reddit (or even just googling stuff) to the new applicable community would be extra helpful (a lot of empty communities at the moment).

    Things keep looking better here, so I’m optimistic about lemmy.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, lurkers aren’t counted. Only those who have commented or posted within a specified period.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Worth noting we probably have a much higher engagement percentage than the average atm. Young community, cool new idea, gets people excited. Since the service isn’t really ready for primetime yet, the only way to really pitch in and even just vent enthusiasm is to make content. For most of us that don’t have dev skills anyway.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    This seems like very important information worth sharing in general but also wherever these stats are posted including in the software itself (via (?) or tooltip).

    It also means that the real number of active users, which includes lurkers, is actually higher.

    I still think the majority of registered users are bots though. I don’t think we have actually have 2,000,000 people on here.

    What’s a good estimate of lurkers? 10% of actives? 200% of actives?

    • mstrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m a little bit of a lurker yes. I comment when I think I can add something to the discussion, but I usually like to read more than I contribute unfortunately.

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Usually places like this follow a 90-9-1 rule (though this will be skewed for now as all the people moving here from reddit are more likely to be in reddits 10%):

      90% lurk/simply view 9% participate (vote, etc) 1% create (effort posts, OP, etc).

      If we follow this then the actual non-bot number is closer to 400k than 2 million. As I said above though, currently it’s skewed.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If it’s anything like /r/, it likely follows the 90/9/1 lurk/comment/post rule, or will, once the novelty wear soff and things settle.

  • BrockSampson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Just been lurking until now but I guess we can +1 that active user count. Just waiting for sync to add a lemmy app and then it’s full steam ahead.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’ll definitely be better than Reddit. Reddit has honestly gotten pretty terrible in the last few years. Fediverse may have its flaws but it’s still better than what Reddit has become (and ultimately what Reddit’s for-profit wannabes will become).

  • davidzilla12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.

    • Atreju@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m on some cracked official Reddit app that has the ads fully removed. I am not sure if it will still work afterwards but switching to Lemmy anyway.