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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at !reddit@lemmy.world

For people wanting to discuss why some people focus on Lemmy's growth, here is a recent thread from !asklemmy@lemmy.world :

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 93 points 2 months ago

We've definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the insight!

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[-] sunaurus@lemm.ee 79 points 2 months ago

Interesting! We've had quite a noticeable spike of sign-ups on lemm.ee as well

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 44 points 2 months ago

I have been mentioning it on Reddit a few times, so glad to see that helps!

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

I hope you are doing a good job of converting more Redditors to Lemmy :D

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He totally is! I've noticed Blaze's posts a bunch -well assuming he goes by the same name lol. He's doing a great job at shepherding and getting the info out there. @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

Also I took a peek at some of threads discussing the paywalls and noticed there seems to be increased awareness about Lemmy, dare I say interest😆

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

BlazeAlt is me, so probably!

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

You are in enemy borders to get others to join our movement. Kudos to you, stay safe out there soldier. 🫡

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[-] Sesudesu@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Welcome! I have noticed the last week or two that there has been a real influx of activity, and it's now basically the same experience for larger subreddits/lemmy communities. All we need is some niche community and better cross/instance community combining and we're golden. Enjoy!

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Welcome. Please comment and post as much as you can. The more content Lemmy has the more people will engage and create more content

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I like lemmy, people can actually see comments too, theyre not drowned out

[-] Eww@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My oldest Reddit account was close to 15 years old and I haven't logged into any of them for almost 2 years. All the same content and none of the Reddit BS.

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[-] RangerJosie@sffa.community 38 points 2 months ago

I'm new here coming from Reddit.

Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

[-] Knossos@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The benefit is also it's curse. It's all open, so there can be a bunch of names and a bunch of apps. Nobody agrees what the best app is.

But once you get your own ecosystem set up, it is amazing.

Which is a huge hurdle for new people 😬

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[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I'd rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren't here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

[-] Elevator7009@kbin.run 42 points 2 months ago

The content/users aren't here so I'm stubbornly trying to post content and comment whenever I can.

Even if I shout into the void, or get a few upvotes and little other engagement.

Although I understand it's not for everyone, I encourage you to help out with that ;-;

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 months ago

Even if I shout into the void, or get a few upvotes and little other engagement.

For people in similar situations, !fedigrow@lemm.ee

[-] ericjmorey@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago

Didn't know about that one. Just subscribed!

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

I was never much of an /r/all user, it's always been niche communities for me. I feel like almost all of my niches have content here now (if not quite as much engagement as I'd like). !retrogaming@lemmy.world in particular has exploded with activity lately and arguably can now serve as a full replacement for its subreddit counterpart.

Thing is, when I try to bring people on Lemmy, it's always "why?" and if I make it that far, "how?" With the how, I've been using the analogy of signing up for email, though it's still not as smooth as it could be. Eyes glaze over when anyone starts asking me about how the Fediverse in general works.

The why is harder. I don't know how much user bleed-over niche Reddit got from /r/all users but I'm guessing it wasn't a trivial amount. I'm sure a lot of Reddit's growth was owed to AMAs, so it's possible Lemmy might need something flashy to draw in users who will then filter into communities waiting for them. Some sort of content unique to the platform. I do think before we get there we need a friendlier way to help new people find communities they may have interest in.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 months ago

Which content are you interested in?

https://lemmit.online/ can be used to crosspost content from Reddit, but you won't get much comments as people tend to prefer content curated by humans

!newcommunities@lemmy.world has a weekly thread with active communities.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Why not cross post some of the content yourself?

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[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Out of curiosity, what content are you looking for? Discovery on Lemmy can be a problem, but sometimes the communities are there and even active, just buried.

But may I also suggest searching by Top Day/12-hour/6-hour to see the most active posts. Lemmy's scaled algorithm still doesn't get it quite right IMO.

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[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here.

Two days old today, baaabbby!!

Doing my part tho! I've created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

That is crazy. Nice work! :D

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Thank you. Everyone is calling me a troll and saying things like, "Troll alert. Account is only 2 days old!"

But WTF? Are we supposed to wait after we create an account to start posting?

No. I created an account so I could START posting. lol

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago
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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

every time spez opens his mouth a bunch of people go "hmm let me see if there's something else"

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago

It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don't seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

That's weird! I go on Lemmy daily and it's been feeling a lot busier IMO.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The CADT model...that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people's code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a "maintenance programmer" which was something of an insult, but I didn't mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else's code, think others' code is "garbage" (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it's a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there's tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

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[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 23 points 2 months ago

I like Lemmy's culture better. It isn't perfect, and maybe someday I'll create my own instance. And I can do that.

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 10 points 2 months ago

There's a bit of an echo in some places.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Came here after the API bullshit. Takes a little getting used to but it scratches that same itch

[-] Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

[-] Asudox@lemmings.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I agree. I came here for two reasons:

  • Reddit is proprietary
  • Shit mods
  • API paid
  • Karma system

Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fuck spez

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[-] ericjmorey@discuss.online 15 points 2 months ago

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn't lie to ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

[-] iso@lemy.lol 15 points 2 months ago

More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

[-] ericjmorey@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago

I think that's a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

You think that, on average, half of active users are alts...?

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[-] rustyfemboy 14 points 2 months ago

As a new user it's nice seeing so many new users in this thread.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

THE YEAR OF THE FEDIVERSE

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I'm doing my part.

[-] Yeldarb12@toast.ooo 10 points 2 months ago

Does this include people who don't post or comment much?

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

Active means one vote, post or comment in the last month

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Not saying it’s the bots… but it’s the bots, isn’t it?

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

This guy bots.

[-] EddieTee77@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
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