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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
In other news, Sync is coming to Lemmy.
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Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.
Agreed. It’s really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we’ll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.
The small niche communities are pretty much dead, sadly. But there for sure is hope!
For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.
It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.
I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.
Yeah, no idea whether this is spammers trying to stake turf or someone trying to inflate the user count to stick it to reddit (or something) but the numbers from the 18th on are clearly inauthentic.
TBF reddit’s numbers are also inauthentic.
Hell, fake it till you make it isn’t that bad a strategy to attract new users.
Of course, you also need content. I hope people start making bots which steal content from reddit, which bots on reddit steal from twitter/insta/tiktok/snapchat. That way we can all cut out the middle-man.
On a side note, I think it’s really cool that I’m on kbin and commenting on something on lemmy.
On a side note, I think it’s really cool that I’m on kbin and commenting on something on lemmy.
It’s also so well integrated, that I just realized I am on a Lemmy magazine/community.
What’s really cool is that, on lemmy-based website at least, you can also follow PeerTube channels, and comment on videos.
Plus, there are Mastodon/Misskey/etc. fediverse microblogging users peppered all throughout these posts.
Conspiracy theory: what if Reddit is using it’s not army to make a bunch of dead/spam accounts to try to make Lemmy instances more expensive solely to try to price them out of their space so they can then turn and point to how “Reddit alternatives aren’t viable/stable.”
On one hand, that’s obviously stupid and not true. On the other hand, I can see Huffman being petty and malicious enough to do something like that.
Wouldn’t that just make Lemmy seem more popular?
Inactive accounts don’t really add any expense. Creating a bot farm to create large amounts of artificial traffic to crush competitors would risk antitrust lawsuits that would actually cripple the company.
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Im doing my part!
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July 1st is going to be interesting.
Yes, I expect some instances to have some difficulty coping with the traffic in July
I sometimes go to Reddit again, mostly by habit, but once Relay stops working, I’m done.
I understand the bot concern, but when I look at the comment and active user figures, they’re all in the same trendline of exponential growth. This is the exodus just beginning. Personally I’m finding Lemmy to be a refreshing alternative that serves far better than what Reddit has become. I think it’s what we’ve all been waiting for, and the secret’s starting to get out.
Yep it’s nice an alternative getting popular
It’s actually pretty badass to see how quick the response is developing and the awareness being so immediate. What’s really cool is to see what gets done about a problem with full transparency, instead of Reddit Admins’ chamber of secrets.
Ngl, I’m gonna miss these early days I think. Hopefully we have instilled some type of decent, thoughtful culture on here that can keep us grounded and keep flourishing.
I really like getting in on these big threads later at night when everyone is chopping it up and making me think.
Line goes up?
You failed to continue multiplicative growth therefore your investors are going to pull their money… Wait there are no investors, there is no ipo. I’m going to donate 10$.
Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.
something something undertaker mankind cage something.
I want to see shittywatercolors here in the fediverse!
Where are you shitty? We want your colors of water
I read shittymorph’s most recent Undertaker post in a thread the other day. It felt like a semi retirement post; at least that’s the vibe I got from it.
Maybe some will migrate here, maybe new ones will pop up. End of an era either way though.
We’ll know Lemmy truly is the future when we have the first shittymorph post.
Hey, I’m just here to shitpost and promote “Barbie”, OK?
Please, let’s bring the conversation back to Rampart.
???
Maybe google shittymorph
/shrugs. I got my old username. I’m happy.
Not https, your account will never be secure
Bot accounts…so many bots…
https://149455152.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BotBots-Featured.jpg
How easy is it!
I just used my Reddit name and continued here.
No effort what so ever.
Bit to wrap my head around the idea of subs being completely different communities on different servers, but I LIKE that idea… no Fascist Overlords to control the groupthink.
I guess (if this is how the Lemmyverse/Fediverse works) is some AWS/cloud instances are going to be spun up hard and fast!
@MicroWave
There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.
We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)
Just check https://lemmit.online/c/itookapicture . Sadly only bot posts
This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, it’s not made purely to spam communities afaik
I have mixed feelings about this. We should try to get more people here to make this content. Maybe it’s just me but I when I see a whole page with bot posts I stay away from that community. I would rather see posts from real users, engage with them, share my thoughts with the author and I am not able to do that if it’s a copy from somewhere else made by a bot
Bots get a bad rep. Bots are fantastic, it’s just a shame they are prejuded to be bad. I’m sure signup has a bot mode on some instances.
Nice try, bot!
I have no problem with bots in general (there were some really cool novelty ones on reddit, as well as moderation ones, etc). When large amounts of accounts are created for bots, it seems a bit shady, however. Will those be used to push political opinions and guerilla marketing as Lemmy gets bigger, or did someone just create a bunch of accounts to simulate conversations using an LLM?
They’re supposed to be bot posts. That’s what lemmit.online is for. To copy Reddit content into communities on lemmit.online.
Good to know. Also I have mixed feelings about this. It’s great to see more content but I would rather see more of original posts here than a copy from reddit.
I’m super excited for Sync for Lemmy.
Also tinfoil hat on for a second. If there are really as many bots as people keep suggerting. Who has an interest in sabotaging lemmy?
But then it’s probably the same bits which are everywhere now interested in lemmy because it gained users.
I assume its a target for bots because its a lie hanging fruit.
Also it’s harder to find bots down the road
Lets fucking go. Fuck you spez.
AND MY AXE!
AND MY BOW
I think it’s either bots or some spooky spammers that are falsely reporting the number of users. e.g. lemmy.k6qw.com currently claims to have 44k users with no posts…
Yeah that’s a bad instance.
There are many more bad instances like this in the statistics. I think it will become a problem for Lemmy sooner or later.
Probably! But in the mean time I bet some real people will join just because they see the numbers going up.
I believe instances can block other instances entirely, right? Or have I misunderstood that? This would mean none of those bots in there could ever post in our threads here. I’m sure there will be cooperation between the instances on this.
I think with the extreme novelty, there will be LOTS of devs trying out new scripts and auto-doings.
I suspect that will be learned pretty fast, published to a group, then many of the bots will simply die out.
the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.
Were you using new reddit? I don’t find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).
Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster
I’ve tried moving away from Reddit several times with varying degrees of success, this time though it’s felt really easy - the more i learn about Lemmy the more i like it and look forward to seeing it evolve. There are some really nice communities here too, feels like a lot of the most interesting people have come here but the spammers, bots and trolls haven’t yet – i’m sure it’ll change as things grow but i’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.
Honestly the only thing missing now is a good app for iOS. However I’ve been using the mobile browser version and it works just fine. I hope Apollo’s dev sees an opportunity here and goes for it.
How are you using the browser version? I just can’t browse /all without having a new post pushing down the feed every 5 seconds I find it unusable.
There’s a couple iOS apps in development right now (Mlem and Memmy). Can’t wait for them to hit the app store.
Artemis for Lemmy/kbin looks like Apollo’s spiritual successor
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You should grab memmy and join their discord. They’ve posted some screenshots of what the UI overhaul will look like in the short term and it looks incredible. If you love Apollo, it should be a pretty easy transition
