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."
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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.
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.
Okay, here's my first comment.
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.
I'm gonna comment so as to be counted as active.
Upping the active count, no lurking for me
So active users doesn't include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that's even more impressive.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Does this comment make me active now?
So not even counting the lurkers
To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.
Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)
+1-I'm doing my part
I'm here to boost that active user number. Hoping this takes off.
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 just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.
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.
As a Reddit user for over a decade that got perma-banned for reporting repost bots and blatant misinfo
Glad to see new site where I can actually be involved.
Man, I knew I made the right decision to promote "Barbie" on this Lemonworld thing instead of reddit.
This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!
And with all the apps pooping every 3 days it's getting even better!
Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!
Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.
Signed up like 15 minutes ago, count me in
Lemmy feels really good compared to reddit
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
we are going to the moon boiss. let's fuckking go
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Upvoting/Downvoting/Subscribing should count as active too. (From a lurker)
gas gas gas
have been loving it so far, the jerboa app is either a bit buggy or this instance is having troubles
wishing sync devs could eventually adapt for lemmy, as i really liked the ui
The sync dev is currently working on a Lemmy version. It won't be long.
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.
let's go!
Just found lemmy today, and I'm already liking it
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