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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm gonna comment so as to be counted as active.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Upping the active count, no lurking for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So not even counting the lurkers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, lurkers aren't counted. Only those who have commented or posted within a specified period.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

this keeps getting touted but isn’t it a huge number of bots causing the rise?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren't active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that's causing the rise in accounts (2.5m!) not the active accounts data

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

Everyone online is a bot except you.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Finally I know what counts as an active user thank you!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Now this is a metric I can get behind, instead of the million bot accounts

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

To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on some cracked official Reddit app that has the ads fully removed. I am not sure if it will still work afterwards but switching to Lemmy anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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

Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh so lurkers aren't counted as active? That's even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed! That would be me, but I would now like to contribute to the totals so I am contributing this fairly worthless comment!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, here's my first comment.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, I knew I made the right decision to promote "Barbie" on this Lemonworld thing instead of reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sync for Lemmy should drop in a few days. You should subscribe to the Sync dev's official community for it: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy feels really good compared to reddit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Much better metric to see how Lemmy is growing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just found lemmy today, and I'm already liking it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Always lurked on Reddit but happy to be counted as active on Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Giving this place a shot... Can't be worse than Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adding a comment to ensure I'm being flagged as active. Can't remember if I've posted or commented since joining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The numbers have to be higher. I've been lurking so far without commenting. I Imagin a lot of other people have been too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll also become active with this comment so I can be counted!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My first comment here so that I’ll be counted as a ‘User’!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Previously uncounted lurker also commenting for the stats.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

gas gas gas

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