• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 years 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
      4·
      2 years 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
        5·
        1 year 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
          1·
          2 years 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
      2·
      2 years 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
    11·
    2 years 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
    9·
    2 years 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
      4·
      2 years 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·
      2 years 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
        2·
        2 years 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·
          2 years ago

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

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years 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.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.

      • hydra@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It is a bit harder due to fragmentation but it will get better, don’t worry. Also plenty of new upcoming apps.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years 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.

  • davidzilla12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years 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
      1·
      2 years 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.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years 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?

  • BrockSampson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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
    5·
    2 years 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·
      2 years 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.

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years 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.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years 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·
        2 years 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.

      • nickpeirson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m currently using Jerboa on android. Anything stand out that Thunder or Summit do better that’s worth me taking a look at?

        • V4uban@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Mostly the interface. I think it’s more a preference thing than an objective aspect

    • vtez44@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      I doubt many people will move. Most people will just start using the official app or move to another website. Lemmy doesn’t have much content (yet), and that’s yet worse than not having a good app. They will just quick look and go back, if even.

      • Sneckster@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        At this point content is definitely needed more than users. I really to stick with lemmy but the content just isn’t here… Like you said (yet)

        Those Reddit echo bots are really starting to annoy me now too.

        I’m still hopeful though, I don’t want to go back to Reddit

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          I rarely posted content on reddit, but I engaged a lot.

          I realized that once I got here, I needed to post content if I wanted to encourage others to do the same.

          We need both content and engagement. Engagement drives the content, it’s a feedback loop.

          • Candelestine@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yeah same. I’m a commenter at heart. But, writing is a skill, so it translates into a few things I can post about that might be of value to others.