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.”
Sources:
- https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
- https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
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.
Here ya go.
Upping the active count, no lurking for me
I’m gonna comment so as to be counted as active.
Reporting in
I’m not.
i opened up this thread with the intention of doing just that— glad to see i’m not the only one lol
Brilliant.
Hey me too!
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Hello there
It’s not much. But it’s honest work.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
It is a bit harder due to fragmentation but it will get better, don’t worry. Also plenty of new upcoming apps.
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.
So not even counting the lurkers
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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.
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.
Thunder and Summit are also pretty good suggestions for Android.
I would link people to https://lemmy.world/post/465785
I’m currently using Jerboa on android. Anything stand out that Thunder or Summit do better that’s worth me taking a look at?
Connect for Lemmy is in the Play store and not bad.
I doubt many people will move. Most people will just start using the official app or move to another website. Lemmy doesn’t have much content (yet), and that’s yet worse than not having a good app. They will just quick look and go back, if even.
At this point content is definitely needed more than users. I really to stick with lemmy but the content just isn’t here… Like you said (yet)
Those Reddit echo bots are really starting to annoy me now too.
I’m still hopeful though, I don’t want to go back to Reddit
I rarely posted content on reddit, but I engaged a lot.
I realized that once I got here, I needed to post content if I wanted to encourage others to do the same.
We need both content and engagement. Engagement drives the content, it’s a feedback loop.
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
I came here from r/sourdough so… getting there
Was not expecting that sub to have 410k members.
Then again, sourdough is great, so I really shouldn’t be surprised.
gas gas gas
Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.
Same
Hello, I see you 👁️👄👁️
Yup same, testing
Same here.
Hello fellow lemmitors?
Lemmites? Make Ned Ludd proud.
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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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.
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Man, I knew I made the right decision to promote “Barbie” on this Lemonworld thing instead of reddit.
Oh, hi Margot Robbie. I loved you in Suicide Squad… the first one, I couldn’t be bothered to watch the second one. Sorry 😅
This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!
let’s go!
