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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm gonna comment so as to be counted as active.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So not even counting the lurkers

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

this keeps getting touted but isn’t it a huge number of bots causing the rise?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone online is a bot except you.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh so lurkers aren't counted as active? That's even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, here's my first comment.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed! That would be me, but I would now like to contribute to the totals so I am contributing this fairly worthless comment!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upping the active count, no lurking for me

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm here to boost that active user number. Hoping this takes off.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So active users doesn't include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that's even more impressive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And with all the apps pooping every 3 days it's getting even better!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Finally I know what counts as an active user thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does this comment make me active now?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Now this is a metric I can get behind, instead of the million bot accounts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Signed up like 15 minutes ago, count me in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome! Search Lemmy for "3 Day No Poop" to be totally caught up with last week's major events here.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This seems like very important information worth sharing in general but also wherever these stats are posted including in the software itself (via (?) or tooltip).

It also means that the real number of active users, which includes lurkers, is actually higher.

I still think the majority of registered users are bots though. I don't think we have actually have 2,000,000 people on here.

What's a good estimate of lurkers? 10% of actives? 200% of actives?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Reddit user for over a decade that got perma-banned for reporting repost bots and blatant misinfo


Glad to see new site where I can actually be involved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been lurking and trying to figure it all out so I’m not part of that stat so I’d imagine there are lots of folks like me. I’m not super active on Reddit but not having Apollo means I have to lurk somewhere else.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.

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[–] iaamp 6 points 1 year ago

This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Giving this place a shot... Can't be worse than Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

People say the real migration will happen on July 1st, but people can't move if they don't know where the apps are going.

Link people to Sync for Lemmy and Liftoff for Lemmy (already usable) on Android

and Memmy for Lemmy (already usable) for those on iOS.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m excited to be here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Checking in ( ̄ー ̄)ゞ

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Noice. To the moon!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Upvoting/Downvoting/Subscribing should count as active too. (From a lurker)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fediverse social seem a thousand percent more chill and make me 100 percent less stressed and depressed than non fediverse social.

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