• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    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
      4·
      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
        5·
        11 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.

    • like47ninjas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

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

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    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.

    • JollyTheRancher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

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

        • salimundo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    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
      2·
      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.

    • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      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
        1·
        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.

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      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.

    • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh, hi Margot Robbie. I loved you in Suicide Squad… the first one, I couldn’t be bothered to watch the second one. Sorry 😅

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

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

  • Nostromo Survivor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

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

  • MathAndBall@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • iknowyouare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’ve definitely noticed the uptick in the number of communities and new posts. Exciting times.

    • ArkyonVeil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.