A Flourish data visualisation by Gabino3503
  • @nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
    41•11 months ago

    The numbers are still quite low compared to what the activity now feels like. Two weeks ago I could easily read all posts and comments and now I can’t follow the many new posts ^^

    • @Johnnypneumoniac@lemmy.oneEnglish
      29•11 months ago

      I’m being a lot more active here than I was on Reddit. Trying to make sure it feels like a dynamic space for new redfugees :)

        • @mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          17•11 months ago

          I’m feeling the same way, but I suppose we’ll soon see.

          Even if the reddit exodus doesn’t turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.

      • @setsneedtofeed@beehaw.orgEnglish
        8•11 months ago

        I’ve got a ton of things to post that are either from my pulled down Reddit posts or stuff I had but never posted. Here, if anything I’m trying to pace my posts so that I don’t drown a community in just my threads.

      • CamusEnglish
        5•11 months ago

        Same here as well, really enjoying it so far.

    • @lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
      24•11 months ago

      50,000 people is a LOT of people. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the millions of users on reddit and other social media sites are either separated and isolated into smaller segments, or even then most people just lurk.

      • RentlarEnglish
        20•11 months ago

        I looked at the participation (active user) rate, it shows above 20% in Beehaw and 7% overall in Lemmy. Normally subreddits of 3,000-6,000 are kind of slow and people post once in a while, most probably lurk.

        Here, at least for now it’s really buzzing, people get a sense that they can be heard and real conversations are happening.

          • @dogmuffins@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            The situation in November with Fosstodon (Mastodon instance) & Twitter might be analogous.

            Fosstodon had about 20k users, at the start of November, and more than 50k by the end.

            There was definitely an initial surge of activity which diminished after a time, but it didn’t return to it’s previous level.

            I don’t have the data but the vibe is that the users to activity ratio stayed about the same, now 6 months on it feels like there’s 250% of the activity that there was at the same time last year.

            Of course loads of people are creating accounts here just to have a look but will probably never post, but there’s also plenty of new users who will be engaged long term.

      • JomnEnglish
        7•11 months ago

        Yeah, I’m usually just a lurker but Lemmy makes me want to take part of the experience. I really hope that it will take off in the long run.

    • @Hagarashi8@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21•11 months ago

      You just got used to have millions of users on sub, and forgot that tens of thousands of users is a lot. Especially New users, who is going to read and comment a lot, compared to reddit with half of users being, like, not active at all.

      • @nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
        9•11 months ago

        Makes sense. A friend of me unfortunately turns Lemmy down because the largest instance has “only” 1.6k users

          • @LemmyAtem@beehaw.orgEnglish
            6•11 months ago

            So far it’s not over run by assholes and brigades so I’m diggin it, even if content is sparse for now!

          • SlashzeroEnglish
            4•11 months ago

            Yup. That played a big role for me, too. The other factor was lemmy.ml was the first to approve my signup, finally giving me the ability to post. I’m still looking around to get a feel for other instances, and might even set up my own.