Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing

data here

  • Alpagu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    The total number of active users in the last month would be a much more accurate statistic. The number of users does not give the correct result due to bot accounts.

    • Untitled9999@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The chart here shows 37,000 active users for Lemmy, and this chart here shows 45,000 active users for Kbin.

      And if the recent trend continues then those numbers should grow.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?

        • Tarte@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          The goal of Kbin is to communicate with many other ActivityPup services.

          Lemmy: Link aggregator, social network, forum
          Kbin: Link aggregator, social network, forum, microblogging
          Mastodon: Microblogging

          You can use Kbin to interact with Lemmy, Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, and others. That’s why I switched today (and loving it, exploring everything right now).

          I don’t believe that there are multiple instances of Kbin right now. I only know of kbin.social (it is free and open source, though, so anyone can open another instance, I think). Edit: This was wrong. There are many instances. See the answer below.

        • Starbuck@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Think of it like email, where you can use GMail and I can use Hotmail, but we can talk to each other. I can see your post and respond from my kbin account (like this).

        • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
          222·
          1 year ago

          Its a completely different link agreggator software. But since both Lemmy and kbin are based on the ActivityPub protocol, instances of both can federate with each other. Hence, lemmy users can see content posted on kbin instances and vice versa.

    • Phil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Here is the active users last month curve

      It is not just active users , we have gone from under 100 nodes (instances) to over 300 in June alone , I really love the distributed network idea, I could see large sub from reddit running there own instance where they really have control of the destiny of there community.

  • guyman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is where it’s at. I’m noticing an insane jump in quality. It feels like everyone on reddit wants to be a comedian or repeat the same thing 1000 times just to show they fit in.

    • ptah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve checked Reddit a few times the past few days and I’ve started to notice how many comments are the same inside jokes over and over again. The hive mind really looks different when you’re on the outside.

  • Tragic@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s just like 14 people not understanding the software and creating accounts on every instance

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Expect a crazy peak around July 1st, that’s when reddit apps will shutdown, after that things should settle I think.

    • wheresyourshoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I imagine there will still be a higher than normal amount of growth, but not as steep, through the rest of the summer as other people give up on Reddit after the changes. Some casual users may not understand what’s going on, but they’ll notice the changes through July and August without all the 3rd party people and the mods who leave/have left/got removed, which may drive them to alternatives.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      What does “active” mean? Are lurkers considered active? Or do you have to vote/comment/post to be considered active?

      • ptah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Looking through the code on GitHub it looks like active is the number of new posts plus the number of new comments in a certain time period (in this case 6 months).

        Caveat: I’m just a hobbyist so my reading of the code may not be exactly correct.

        create or replace function site_aggregates_activity(i text)
returns int
language plpgsql
as
$$
declare
   count_ integer;
begin
  select count(*) 
  into count_
  from (
    select c.creator_id from comment c
    inner join user_ u on c.creator_id = u.id
    where c.published > ('now'::timestamp - i::interval) 
    and u.local = true
    union
    select p.creator_id from post p
    inner join user_ u on p.creator_id = u.id
    where p.published > ('now'::timestamp - i::interval)
    and u.local = true
  ) a;
  return count_;
end;
$$;

update site_aggregates 
set users_active_day = (select * from site_aggregates_activity('1 day'));

update site_aggregates 
set users_active_week = (select * from site_aggregates_activity('1 week'));

update site_aggregates 
set users_active_month = (select * from site_aggregates_activity('1 month'));

update site_aggregates 
set users_active_half_year = (select * from site_aggregates_activity('6 months'));
    • Phil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not sure you can infer that from this chart as I believe it counts active users and contributors so lurkers won’t show up, of course will will have a lot of people checking us out. Not that bots won’t be an issue in the future they will.

  • src@lemmy.swrc.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The vast majority of this “growth” is from bots. It’s not genuine, unfortunately.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I understand a large part of it is an influx of spam bots on unsecured instances so don’t get too excited quite yet.