From 3000 daily users to 41000 active daily users!
This is a better metric than registered users. I’m enjoying this early stage of lemmy where everyone seems eager to use the platform. It’s giving the same vibes as the old forums I used to participate in the early days of the internet. We just need more content creators and we are set!
The comment sections have been pretty engaging in the communities that are getting established quickly, but I can’t wait for more people to start posting. I have a community for SpacePorn and it’s just me posting things and almost 100 people watching with the very rare occasional comment popping up. It’s a little frustrating feeling like I have to keep entertaining everyone, when I just want others to join in 😅.
I’m in a similar situation in [email protected]. Getting people engaged is a bit like getting people to dance at a party, many people want to but someone has to break the ice… things I’ve tried is pinning a post asking people to stop by and say hi, also comment on each post so there’s something to latch onto, people won’t click in with 0 comments. You can also try a joke post to break the ice, in the case of SpacePorn you could combine a picture of a galaxy and a swimsuit model and say “Am I doing this right?!?” or something; it’s stupid but hopefully it makes someone laugh.
Made the !half_life community yesterday and it does feel like this. The only other post is a post my friend made so I could promote him to moderator. I don’t have much experience so I’m not sure I’m able to fully understand your situation though.
Just tell me where to post photos of a Whippet in a hat and I’m there. 👍
yep! I’m not much of a conversation starter but love diving into comments, let’s hope it keeps growing
Same. I‘m missing a lot of niche hobby subs (duh) over here which I’m mainly active on, and that‘s about it, honestly. Design and performance could be a lot better too. I‘ll stick around and see where it goes.
Woot woot!
I’ve been commenting here more than I did on Reddit where I lurked accountless on old.reddit, let’s hope the trend continues.
Same. I feel like what I say here is actually heard.
Ps, I just saw how many posts you’ve created and wanted to thank you for all the effort you are putting in here. I spend a ton of time surfing, and appreciate all the work that the technical people are doing to allow us to have a new home.
@[email protected], thanks so much! I used to lurk on reddit, but now I’m trying to do a little bit to help this site and lemmy grow. I see you’re contributing as well.
Trying too. I think a free social media place to exchange ideas is incredibly important for democracy etc all that stuff.
Exactly. This right here is a microcosm of that. I discussed poetry with someone last night. I haven’t discussed that in years! It’s nice here.
You can say that :D
Exactly! :)
Reddit refugee here.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes
As long as a good amount of us refugees contribute to help make this a vibrant and interesting community by sharing thoughts and interests, this should go pretty well. I’m loving it so far. Cheers!
Already dropped 10 or so comments :)
Make that 11!
Made a community :)
Sweet! What community?
I hopped over recently. Very happy to be here.
LINE GO UP
LINE GO UP
This kind of growth is absolutely insane.
I didn’t think I would get on with Lemmy but it’s actually really good!
Welcome! Thoughts so far?
Much better statistic than total users due to all the spam bots recently created.
What is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don’t need to make accounts. It’s very suspicious.
There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.
Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be “lurking-only” servers? Hardly.
This website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?
Random servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity.
Lurkers don’t organize themselves to all go to the same servers.
Yeah I think so too, at least until the bots activate.
You happy with this stat, @[email protected]?
Haha :D
Thanks for listening :)
Happy to please!
I’m happy too. Thanks for asking 🙄
The power of collaboration
To the moon!
Best of stats!
In YOUR opinion.
(look at their username)
Finally, a useful stats as total user count skewed by bot spam.
Speaking of bots, they are still inactive aren’t they?For the most part they seem to be. There’s an instance with like 50k “users” but only 10 active, which tells me the bots are registering but most aren’t being used yet.
It is a bit unnerving to have bots to human ratio that high on the network. I hope they will never activated and many compromized servers get cleaned before something bad happens.
https://images.app.goo.gl/W6T158LnTE2V9MJF7
What are they up to out there…
Even if they do activate. Can’t we just defederate that entire instance. From what I have seen. Most of the bots are on instances with like 10 posts. We should just defederate all of those instances in which the user count is exponentially higher than the user activity.
Surprising it’s gained this much traction, considering Reddit literally doesn’t allow this site to be linked on their platform (which is honestly so petty)
Explains why I don’t see lemmy links over there. spez did say he admires Elon, so that makes a lot of sense.
Is there something I’m missing here?
About what? Sorry if what I said didn’t make sense.
You said this had something to do with Spez admiring Elon, I don’t use Twitter or know a lot about the guy. So I just feel like I’m missing something here.
Oh that. I hate linking to Twitter, but here’s a quick summary of what I meant: https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845
Twitter was also removing links to Mastodon when people were leaving there. Im not sure if they still do, as I haven’t opened Twitter in over a year.
Hopefully not majority bots
I tend to sort by new and all, and it seems like the majority is bots copying posts over from reddit, they have original link to the post on Reddit but there is the bot disclaimer on a lot of posts recently. Maybe it will die down a little once these bots move all the data from reddit to lemmy
These are not, bots are mostly dormant currently.
That’s what I was hoping/assuming, but it does worry me at the same time.
Oh I’m worried too about bots, I hope devs and admins soon find a way to deal with it.
Same here! Hopefully enough come/stay to get a nice community going
It’s good to see. On June 30/July 1 we’re likely to see another big influx of users when the Reddit API changes go into effect and Apollo et al shut down.
Yep looking forward to it.
On the first I expect a huge jump.
Yeah, I’d imagine so. I’m only briefly checking reddit now, and that’s only through Relay. The second that becomes unavailable, I am officially done.
I’m glad we’re taking off. The sooner we can shift our communities over to the fediverse, the better.
Just joined. I really hope this kicks off, because it would be sad to see reddit prosper after all the greedy nonsense.
Same feeling here, let’s hope lemmy gains enough traction so that it can at least be self-sustainable and independent of reddit’s dramas
You picked a good instance with lemmy.world because there’s a lot of local activity already. That should keep you busy until you want to start interacting with other lemmy instances.
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