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Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by LambLeeg@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

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[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Can bot cleaning explain this?

[-] nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

I will admit, I was hard into Lemmy at first, but then gradually slipped back into the Reddit habit. This is my first visit to the site in a few weeks.

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[-] Strangle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

As a new user, I kind of can’t get over the idea that bots just seem to scrape links and repost them here.

That seems to be most of the contributions to communities to me.

[-] Burp@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Unpopular opinion: bots might be a good thing for now.
I’m speaking from a growth perspective. Assuming users want to use social media to…socialize… you need active users and constant content. New social media platforms have a lack of users and content. Bots can bridge that gap until enough users are contributing and using the platform.
If you really think about it, it comes down to a platform using bots effectively. Let’s say the bots will only submit content when user submitted content falls below a threshold. Maybe it will auto generate threads for breaking news.
What if bots are used to ask questions and further conversations, like a social lubricant. Employed in a way to pull more useful information from users or to keep people engaged.
This all hinges on the ability for a bot to appear real.

This sounds super fucked when you think about it. I’m not a fan of bot content. If you didn’t know it was a bot, what difference would it make? LLM might be able to make it engaging and natural.

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[-] BCat70@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

The novelty has worn off. Contributions are going to fall to the baseline for this platform. Question is, is the Lemmy space going to expand from that point?

[-] hark@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Growth is not always consistent.

[-] MasterMarkyMark@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Once Boost for Lemmy releases, 10, 000% growth will occur over the coming weeks afterward 😉 (IYKYK)

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[-] A2PKXG@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

That decline is slower than I expected. It shows that more people stay than not

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

This is normal. We've gotten a big enough surge where we have consistent content now. Lemmy was a bit rough when the migration started, but hopefully improvements will go a lot faster now. We're definitely missing a lot of core features and polish still. But Lemmy is a long term social network that is grass roots. All we need to worry about is creating a sustainable community now, and polish up the experience to newcomers so we can sustain the next exodus and be more of a viable platform.

[-] TimD553@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

It needs a solid app like Apollo was for Reddit to help it keep active users.

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[-] AndreTelevise@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

People always tend to bounce back to the bigger platform.

How I like to deal with this is to use two or more platforms of the same kind.

Occasionally open Reddit, and occasionally Lemmy. Occasionally checking Fedi, and occasionally going on Twitter.

It may be disorienting at first, but it's better to get used to going on many websites than sticking to just two.

[-] ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

It's because Reddit is still alive and well and Lemmy just doesn't offer enough to be a serious alternative (yet)

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[-] Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

Being new to Mastodon and Lemmy I personally struggle to figure things out. Just finding a brief summary on how Lemmy works in contrast to reddit has, so far, yielded no helpful results. While I think for me this is just a matter of sticking with the services I can imagine that a lot of people would check in, struggle and check out again.

The, let's call it infrastructure, of Lemmy and the way registration works due to the fediverse is quite different to what most people are used to.

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