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.
Twitter is also focused around individuals. Reddit around communities. I believe different dynamics of those two are why Lemmy works better.
Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As soon as Lemmy gets a proper fully working app, like sync, it will be gangbusters.
Oh so lurkers aren’t counted as active? That’s even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.
Okay, here’s my first comment.
Your comment was so insightful I just had to upvote it thus increasing ‘engagement’. Am I helping?
Good job! 🎉
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.
Yeah I lurk for the most part, but I’d like to contribute to some subs someday with the projects I’m working on!
Here’s my contribution!
Every now and then lurkers have to prove we’re still here
I’m pretty bad about that too, better leave a comment.
I’m an active user too!
Here ya go.
Not to mention the minute lemmy became promising, bot swarms descended and started making placeholder accounts
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.
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!
Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)
Your application looks good; you just need to write an ending for the following sentence: " Fuck …"
Fuck that cretinous spez and his money-grabbing lobotomy business plan.
Double edged sword as it is, I’ll probably prefer Lemmy anyway…
Application approved. Have a lovely day, and I hope you will feel at home here.
Thanks.
Enjoy your day.
Can you hold in a poo for three days?
Well that’s an ask. Once a year can’t be that bad. Can it?
We’ve already had a legendary post occur but I don’t have a ink to the source. Can anyone help out?
There you go, I believe, this is the one 🙂
I’m here to boost that active user number. Hoping this takes off.
Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!
I’m gonna comment so as to be counted as active.
I’m not.
Hey me too!
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It’s not much. But it’s honest work.
Hello there
general Kenobi
Raising my hand
Reporting in
i opened up this thread with the intention of doing just that— glad to see i’m not the only one lol
Brilliant.
Is this were everyone is hanging out today?
Maybe? We’re both here so…
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.
So active users doesn’t include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that’s even more impressive.
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.
Upping the active count, no lurking for me
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?
I’m a little bit of a lurker yes. I comment when I think I can add something to the discussion, but I usually like to read more than I contribute unfortunately.
No one is in disagreement that bots are the majority of registered users.
Usually places like this follow a 90-9-1 rule (though this will be skewed for now as all the people moving here from reddit are more likely to be in reddits 10%):
90% lurk/simply view 9% participate (vote, etc) 1% create (effort posts, OP, etc).
If we follow this then the actual non-bot number is closer to 400k than 2 million. As I said above though, currently it’s skewed.
If it’s anything like /r/, it likely follows the 90/9/1 lurk/comment/post rule, or will, once the novelty wear soff and things settle.
+1-I’m doing my part
