• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

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

    • like47ninjas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.

  • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

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

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years 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!

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    So active users doesn’t include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that’s even more impressive.

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      This is great and exciting news, but we do need to keep things in perspective. Jumping to almost 48,000 daily active users is great, but Reddit has about 55 million. That’s essentially a rounding error as far as Reddit is concerned.

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m curious what the make up of people migrating are. It could be the early adopters that helped Reddit build out the platform ahead of Digg collapsing. It could also be people who were looking for an excuse to leave because they didn’t really like Reddit for one reason or another. I think I fall more in the fed up with Reddit and looking for anyone/anywhere doing it better.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        People keep wishing death upon Reddit. I understand the emotion, but I wish Reddit a long life. Let it be the grease trap for doomscrollers, reposters, and political and corporate infiltration. I don’t want millions of people to join Lemmy. I want the mythical 1% active content creators to jump ship.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • MrBobs@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

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

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’ll definitely be better than Reddit. Reddit has honestly gotten pretty terrible in the last few years. Fediverse may have its flaws but it’s still better than what Reddit has become (and ultimately what Reddit’s for-profit wannabes will become).

  • MathAndBall@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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 been incredibly impressive how quick lemmy improved over the last weeks.

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was frequent poster/commenter on Reddit before having a mini burnout by so many of my comment chains just randomly escalating into pointless arguments by toxic people, so I turned into a long-term lurker after that.

      Conversations on Lemmy are definitely way, way more inviting to partial lurkers like me who want to join in conversations once in a while without having to think about some random toxic people basically hijacking the conversation I’m having to satisfy their need to vent their toxicity onto the internet.