• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    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
      10·
      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
        7·
        10 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
          2·
          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·
      2 years ago

      Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    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
      10·
      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.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      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.

    • PorkTacoEnglish
      5·
      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
        5·
        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
          3·
          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.

      • canEnglish
        2·
        2 years 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.

        • PorkTacoEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I don’t disagree necessarily, I just think anyone expecting a mass migration should temper their expectations.

    • bufordtEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I won’t use the official Reddit app, so my phone Reddit usage will drop to zero on July 1st.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

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

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 years 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!

  • canEnglish
    16·
    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.

  • bannedEnglish
    14·
    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.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      311·
      2 years ago

      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 bots start posting, we’ll have to find another way to track real user activity.

        • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
          12·
          2 years 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.

              • Candelestine@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 years ago

                My (different person here) take is it’s probing behavior. Who benefits? Anti-reddit-protest trolls want to see this fail, and some could have the resources. Savvy criminal organizations see potential profit. Major tech companies see at least a research opportunity at minimal expense. White hats want to find and raise awareness of vulnerabilities.

                Only governments would really have no major motive beyond the usual surveillance of a social space. So I think the question should really be, who’s not doing it? Because if people aren’t wholesale fucking around yet, they’ll start very soon. It’s only the savvy or lucky that are aware of us still, but that will not be true for long. Snowball is rolling now, that’s pretty plain to see.

                I mean, we’re just a big and growing pile of consumers. What else do you do with those?

          • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years 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·
              2 years 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).

              • necrxfagivs@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 years ago

                I hope there’s some way to block that, bots are useful or funny sometimes (like the ones to download videos, reminders, etc). But I asume most of them have the sole purpose of advertising or brigading.

                I can’t wrap my head about Lemmy 0.18 dropping capchas.

          • spriteblood@kbin.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            If we have the ability to identify them or where they’re coming from, could our various platforms just defederate or block the ones who aren’t dealing with the bot problem down the line?

        • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
          420·
          2 years 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
              314·
              2 years 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.

      • ahoyEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        wait how did we conclude that the bots aren’t active yet?

        • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Because people have been monitoring bot infected instances and have not seen them post or comment (yet).

    • AussieTom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

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

    • hardypart@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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
        1·
        2 years 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.

  • davidzilla12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    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
      4·
      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.

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years 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

  • BrockSampson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    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.