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

Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at [email protected]

For people wanting to discuss why some people focus on Lemmy's growth, here is a recent thread from [email protected] :

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the insight!

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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. @[email protected]

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😆

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

BlazeAlt is me, so probably!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 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!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 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

[email protected] has a weekly thread with active communities.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Why not cross post some of the content yourself?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (13 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

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. :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is crazy. Nice work! :D

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Was wondering what kicked off more signups.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

THE YEAR OF THE FEDIVERSE

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is thus just for one instance or across many instances

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I'm doing my part.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This guy bots.

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