We’re seeing an increase from 53k active users at the beginning of July to 72k active users at the time of this post.
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.” Lurkers aren’t considered active users, so basically these are content creators on Lemmy.
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It feels like a threshold has been crossed. Reddit related content is there but not so dominating as before. People are memeing other things, news and politics discussion is popping up, particularly popular posts from more niche communities as well, it feels like a much more healthy mix of content now compared to the beginning of July and especially compared to when I joined during the reddit blackout.
Absolutely, and it’s been very refreshing to see discussion get broader and be filled with memes and other interesting content.
It will take a while to get somewhere close to Reddit, but if we talk about how it feels, I see it getting closer and closer day by day.
Considering how toxic reddit was getting, I’m okay if lemmy doesn’t get close to it.
I rarely ever posted on Reddit, I’m trying to share my original content here now.
I looked at the front page of Reddit without logging in a few hours ago and the site is almost unrecognizable. I’m sure there are people that prefer this iteration but I’m fine moving on.
I think this has been the first week when I didn’t have to like put Lemmy down cause I was just seeing posts I had already seen. It’s nice to have a good feed to scroll again, and not feel like I have to deep dive posts and read every comment just to see something new. Feelsgoodman.
So much this. Exploring this place at first felt a bit empty so to say. Not that much stuff to see or read. Now there’s tons of comments, posts and upvote activity that makes this place feel fresh and alive now. FeelsGoodMan indeed, and we’re the oned giving it life.
I feel good reading about what you said about feeling good. You inspired me to say my first fediwords, and I wanted them to be about feeling good.
Thank you. It feels good to be inspiring others, as I was inspired by other’s excitement and happiness to be here. Welcome
I love all of you beautiful bastards
We have hit the critical mass; and that is a cause for celebration. A month ago when I joined, I thought that people would come, post a bit. See the limited content and leave. And I will admit it was painful to use Lemmy back then since a solid 90 percent of posts where about the site or were rips from Reddit. Fingers crossed for the future of Lemmy
It was also painful to use Lemmy back then because any time there was a new post it would push all the old ones down the screen and you’d often literally have to chase the links that you wanted to click. That on top of how generally slow and unreliable the platform was back in June. The technical improvements to Lemmy over the last few weeks have been absolutely amazing.
Hopefully we’ve not just crossed the activity threshold for people to stick around and shitpost but also for people to figure it’s worth posting some quality stuff here
While there is less reddit content I do feel this past week it just got replaced with meta/threats, and personally it has been kind of even more tiring than reddit content as it has tended to feel like an echo chamber where everyone read the same post and spread a lot of negativity about how Lemmy won’t survive Meta if we don’t block instances that don’t block threats and the like and also the idea going around that if someone wants to federate he is either ignorant or stupid, and talking about that, the elitism on this threats treating everyone on insta and threats as stupid people and saying they don’t sant any of those people here because it dumbs down the content… This last week has been really toxic on the larger communities.
Sorry for that little rant, I had to get that out of my system jeje.
I’ve been lurking, thanks to these users for providing content for me to enjoy while procrastinating.
As have I — this site has effectively wholly replaced reddit for me outside of search.
Holy smokes! Honestly I don’t know if we have or will make much of a dent in r*ddit, but at this point I don’t care. We’re building a new enthusiastic community and doing it fast. It’s a lot of fun.
Yeah, completely killing Reddit was never in the cards in all honesty. Creating legit competition is good for everyone and this is definitely an awesome place already.
If I can speak for myself I literally switched over today cos boost stopped working only yesterday.
Welcome, stranger. Make yourself at home.
Joey for Reddit still works, if it stops completly I’m gone too from reddit and only use lemmy on mobile. not gonna using reddits shitty garbage app.
Dang, that was my reddit app. As much as I loved it, I’m a little disappointed to hear it’s still working.
probably will die every minute now. it’s a mystery to me that it is still alive. either reddit has forgotten about it or dunno. some people speculate that the dev is maybe talking with reddit about a deal and that’s why it’s still alive. but who knows.
Could be, I remember he did a survey shortly before the blackout about what we thought he should do. Maybe enough people said he should try to work it out? But yeah, who knows for sure…
I don’t miss Reddit at all. The Lemmy community is wonderful and vibrant. Very reminiscent of the early days of Reddit
Honestly this has been my mindset since I joined Lemmy. I deleted my reddit account of five years yesterday. I have no intentions of going back.
Commenting so that I can continue to be a positive statistic. 🫡
I disagree.
I’m doing my part.
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I’m parting my do!
I’m doing my part!
I’m doing my part!
I‘m doing my part!
I’m parting my do
I’m doing it, too!
Joining you
I’m throwing my dart!
I might as well try.
Me too
Samesies
It’s weird these numbers are so small, it should feel dead. But there are a lot of great discussions and a lot of good laughs to be had here.
The level of engagement for the very small numbers here must be quite impressive.
I guess it’s the old quality vs quantity.
I used to have a high barrier of thought prior to posting but now I just post whatever bullshit is on my mind at that moment just so I can keep threads active. Like I’m doing now
I had a mindset that I had nothing of value to contribute to the conversation. On here, I type out what I would have at Reddit, but I was just wrong. I get plenty of people who engage with me.
On reddit I always had the feeling that someone else had already made my point for me. Here I find myself submitting all those comments and posts that I just deleted halfway through before.
I think you explained it a bit more eloquently than me. This exactly.
I’m glad to hear from you anyway :)
Ditto that.
And the frustration that comes of that isn’t so much “I didn’t get to make a point, for which I lost the opportunity to receive credit” but more “I didn’t get to engage with the discussion in realtime without having a sense for how others would react, appreciate, or challenge my views”. Reading things afterward has that line of discussion set in stone in a way that’s unlike being a participant.
That’s exactly why I’ve always been a mere lurker. Maybe I should change that!
Super impressed with growth over the last week alone. I really was worried how I would adjust to not being on Reddit after Apollo died but I feel pretty encouraged now.
Me too! Replacing Reddit for me is not so easy but I’m getting better at using Lemmy. Still browse “popular” on Reddit in an alt to compare a bit but so far so good
Only thing I feel like I am missing is r/onepunchman the rest is no loss for me. And I have spend some time to get more news feeds here on Lemmy. I can get used to this.
Nm found !opm@lemmy.world
Amaaaaaazing username! Love it!
Haha thank you <3
Yeah, I stuck with Reddit for a while because I didn’t like Lemmy on Desktop, but now I’m using Memmy so I have no excuse. I just wish the search function were a bit better.
I feel like the real headline here is that active users are about 8x what they were a month ago.
I like that lurkers are more likely to post comments here. No need to fear downvotes, hostility, or feeling like their comment is redundant.
To be fair, that is still going to happen. Everyone just needs to learn the phrase, “Don’t be a dick!”. ;)
While there is definitely a bunch of content popping up now thanks to to influx of actuve users, there still are some more niche communities that were pretty active on old reddit that i guess just can get to critical mass on lemmy and so are pretty dead. I hope that can change going into the future though.
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That’s the thing, right? In trying to force everyone onto a dumpster fire of a main Reddit app, instead, they forced their MOST TECHNICAL and active user base to look at other options.
They even chased off their resources doing things for free, such as a massive bot detection network and large-subreddit moderation.
Everything is snowballing out of control and it’s barely getting started.
I’m waiting for the real protest. When a large collective of moderators decide to form an agreement to protest for compensation all at once. It could happen now that these moderators are seeing their friends being removed from self-created subreddits.
TL;DR: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Turns out the real protest was the Fedifriends we made along the way
So far so good but I haven’t found the blackjack and hookers yet.
I tried to come up with a good “Bender’s blackjack and hookers” type TLD name for an instance but couldn’t come up with anything clever
While this is encouraging, I wonder how many users have multiple active accounts, like I do.
Just create a slightly different personality for each account.
Hmm I like this but maybe I will do one for each mood I am in.
Doing my part to add statistical significance. This feels like using Reddit a decade ago. And that’s a great thing. Lots of room to expand and improve. It’s the age of discovery for the fediverse, and I’m looking forward to seeing how things evolve.
There really is an eerie similarity to how the web felt like a decade ago. I had been aware of how much we’d lost to enshittification, but seeing Reddit’s decline at the same point as other platforms accelerating theirs really drove the point home.
I’m kinda shocked that such a healthy community was born on today’s Internet, bugs, blemishes and all. It gives me hope that we might be able to claw back part of the Internet from the megacorporations. Maybe?
We already have a fairly mature alternative. A couple more fails from Reddit and this place will become even bigger. There is definitely hope.
welcoming the new home with open arms 🙌🏻
Good job team
