• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    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
        9·
        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·
          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
      4·
      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
    18·
    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.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

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

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        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.

  • 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
      1·
      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.

  • Nostromo Survivor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    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
    8·
    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
      3·
      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.

    • 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.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      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.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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
        2·
        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.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      The bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren’t active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once the bots start posting, we’ll have to find another way to track real user activity.

        • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, it’s absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively probing for obscure instances without registration validation and flocking to them. Good thing the top real lemmy instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

          • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Which is a shame, because in theory it seems like creating a self-hosted instance for your personal account has a lot of advantages (not worrying about the host doing something screwy or abandoning the instance, having full control over who you federate with, being able to customize the interface, etc.)

            But that may end up going the way of self-hosted email servers, where differentiating yourself from a spam server becomes impossible and everyone ends up on the equivalent of gmail.

            • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, those instances are defederating from the bot-filled ones, but new ones are still popping up (although seems to be slowing down a little for now).

        • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t see how that could be done, the bot owners can always just spin up their own new instance where they control sign up requirements.

          Other instances can then defederate from the spam instance but they can quickly spin up a new one.

          Gonna be interesting to see how it’s solved.

            • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              The fediverse is decentralized, anyone can start their own lemmy/kbin/mastodon/whatever server and make an account they just approve themselves.

              If you mean some kind of global approval then that destroys the whole point of the fediverse.

    • AussieTom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      My understanding is that’s causing the rise in accounts (2.5m!) not the active accounts data

    • hardypart@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They made the general user number explode for sure, but those bots are not really active yet, so they don’t count as “active users”.

      • Naminreb@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        If they’re like NewsUser and Botittest, the bots will flood this place when they start. Even though these two good bots have made this place a lot more usable, it feels like that’s what the “All” thread has become. Just news.

        Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

        Whichever the instances that lowered their guard were, there will be a day they will have to be defederated. It’ll be a test for this place, for sure.

        • Nepenthe@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

          Same boat as you. It was your comment that made me realize the one filling my feed with nothing but news was all only linkbot and when I blocked it out of curiosity, I could see memes and user posts again. It was posting so often it was literally drowning out every other subject.

          I think it’s nice to keep up with news on a platform that doesn’t seem so US-centric and full of vitriol, and I’ll be sad to see it go. Might turn the block on and off. But I’m already subbed to a news community.

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    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
    7·
    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
      6·
      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.

      • 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.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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.

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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.

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The site has felt way more usable in the last week, too. Haven’t had much time to contribute myself, but I was browsing Active last night and thought to myself “hey, this feels just like the Reddit I know and love”

    Once the niche communities take the plunge, its endgame for Reddit

  • 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.