• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    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
      7·
      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
        8·
        8 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.

        • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Twitter is also focused around individuals. Reddit around communities. I believe different dynamics of those two are why Lemmy works better.

    • like47ninjas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      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
    19·
    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.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    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
      7·
      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.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      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.

    • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      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.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        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
          2·
          1 year ago

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

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m curious what the make up of people migrating are. It could be the early adopters that helped Reddit build out the platform ahead of Digg collapsing. It could also be people who were looking for an excuse to leave because they didn’t really like Reddit for one reason or another. I think I fall more in the fed up with Reddit and looking for anyone/anywhere doing it better.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        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.

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    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.

  • MathAndBall@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been mostly a lurker on Reddit for the past 10 years but something about Lemmy just makes me want to engage in the community more than reddit ever has

    • iknowyouare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I lurked on Reddit for most of my time there. But here, it feels like I can get a fresh start and be a part of a new community. Kinda feels like I have a responsibility too. I want this place to succeed, so I have to contribute.

    • MentalEdgeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wasn’t a lurker on reddit. But damn, lemmy has somehow supercharged me into posting and commenting at ten times the rate I used to.

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was frequent poster/commenter on Reddit before having a mini burnout by so many of my comment chains just randomly escalating into pointless arguments by toxic people, so I turned into a long-term lurker after that.

      Conversations on Lemmy are definitely way, way more inviting to partial lurkers like me who want to join in conversations once in a while without having to think about some random toxic people basically hijacking the conversation I’m having to satisfy their need to vent their toxicity onto the internet.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I still think that Lemmy needs to be more user-friendly before it starts to gain a lot of traction. Right now, the decentralization is an aspect that makes it so great, but it also creates a lot of pain points.

      • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        A month ago there was only around 1k active users and the two primary devs. Things have blown up FAST, but they are working overtime to make changes and establish coordination to help improve the overall experience.

        • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s crazy how fast Lemmy and even the iOS apps have been progressing. Memmy through TestFlight has made browsing Lemmy super easy and fun.

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

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

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    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!

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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

      I’d be curious to learn more about what problems you see? Many of the issues I see people outline come down to defederation and lack of centralization, but I’d argue those are features rather than bugs.

      There is work being done to make it easier to track content across identical communities on multiple instances, we’re in very new territory here so the UX is still in flux and being figured out.

      • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Many of the issues I see people outline come down to defederation and lack of centralization, but I’d argue those are features rather than bugs.

        This is exactly what I mean. These aren’t dealbreakers, but there are downsides to the way that it’s structured - namely, admins of larger instances making decisions on the behalf of their members that you may not agree with and the relative complication of discovering new communities on other instances compared to Reddit. Reddit had its own issues inherent to its platform (first-come-first-serve with regard to community names, aggressive attempts at monetization), and I think this one will be better off in terms of management because of the decentralized structure, but that same decentralized structure may put off new users and make it harder to grow.

  • 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.

  • hmancuso@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    +1. Bye Reddit. Hello Lemmy! Struggling a bit to find my way around. Excited to find so many people willing to contribute to make Lemmy their new home. Feels good to be here.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    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.

    • 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.

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.

  • 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.