From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.
According to Lemmy’s documentation, “An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.”
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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.
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.
Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.
Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.
Oh so lurkers aren’t counted as active? That’s even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.
Indeed! That would be me, but I would now like to contribute to the totals so I am contributing this fairly worthless comment!
Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)
I’ve probably posted as much in Lemmy in a couple weeks as I did on reddit in several years, but as the say, be the change you want to see.
Here’s my contribution!
Every now and then lurkers have to prove we’re still here
Yeah I lurk for the most part, but I’d like to contribute to some subs someday with the projects I’m working on!
Okay, here’s my first comment.
Your comment was so insightful I just had to upvote it thus increasing ‘engagement’. Am I helping?
Here ya go.
Upping the active count, no lurking for me
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So active users doesn’t include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that’s even more impressive.
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.
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.
I won’t use the official Reddit app, so my phone Reddit usage will drop to zero on July 1st.
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.
It is a bit harder due to fragmentation but it will get better, don’t worry. Also plenty of new upcoming apps.
Replying from connect for Lemmy, that just got approved on the play store. Not sure if it’ll be my endgame app but looks snazzy enough. I look forward to trying a few different ones, and to seeing the general functionality get better around here.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Also native search works pretty well https://sh.itjust.works/search?q=cat&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
These should help. Definitely agree about the amount of content. There’s a lot of subs that haven’t even migrated over yet.
I think it’s going to be rough for sometime but the numbers seem promising thus far.
Particularly when compared to any other reddit alterative.
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.
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.
Yeah, Reddit and 4chan can be containment cesspits while quality discussion moves to Fedi.
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.
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.
I don’t disagree necessarily, I just think anyone expecting a mass migration should temper their expectations.
Does this comment make me active now?
That is correct. You would be counted in the next time they run the stats for this instance.
Not sure, let’s rise the odds together 👍
Proud of you 2
I’ll contribute some activity, as well 🙂
I’m gonna comment so as to be counted as active.
I’m not.
Brilliant.
i opened up this thread with the intention of doing just that— glad to see i’m not the only one lol
Reporting in
Hey me too!
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It’s not much. But it’s honest work.
Hello there
To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.
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.
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.
Sync is reddit to me, so when it goes down I can’t see myself going back. I set up a Lemmy account yesterday and am impressed so far knowing it’s still in the early stages. I’m excited to see what LJ can do with Lemmy.
Then you should subscribe to LJ’s official Sync for Lemmy community: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Sync for Lemmy should drop in a few days. You should subscribe to the Sync dev’s official community for it: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
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.
I’m here to boost that active user number. Hoping this takes off.
🚀
Count me in. Now I can resume lurking.
Huzzah!
I just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.
I’ve been here for a couple of days, if anything, I’m pleasantly surprised. This is not Reddit’s first clusterfuck, and although there were alternatives at the time. It’s finally nice to find something that isn’t full of bigots.
That has been the great thing about it, rediscovering that people can talk to strangers on the internet and actually be normal about it. Conversations here don’t seem to devolve into fights as they invariably do on mainstream social sites. And I don’t have to keep explaining to people that it’s possible to care about other people, a concept which several people on Reddit told me was incomprehensible to them.
We are all testing the waters. After a day i can say that the platform have a huge potential. Just be sure to use a well updated, fully integrated app for the best experience.
I’m really hoping we get more and more users here. I miss having the niche communities that were still populated.
Me too!
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. Also it’s incredibly impressive how quickly lemmy improved over the last weeks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!
+1-I’m doing my part
