It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million

Impressive, I guess, but how many of those 2 million posts have a single comment? If 90% of these are just bots reposting things from Reddit with no further engagement…

All I'm missing is the more niche communities to grow. It's good to see lots of memes and engagement but a man needs more.

Man, I really hope more traffic starts heading into some of the more niche communities because getting a new thread every day or there and getting 1 or 2 replies - if that - is not how you sustain a site.

Are there really that few people into cars or engineering or DIY stuff on Lemmy?! Where the fuck are my fellow car and tinkering nerds at? And no one does projects around the house? So few posts in some of the home owner communities as well.

Over half my feed is just low effort memes or auto posted arstechnica articles. Does this data include bot posts?

I wonder how the graph will look in a month's time now that Sync is in open beta.

Lemmy does seem to have enough content and user engagement for my needs. I've noticed engagement going up the past month but wasn't sure I was making that up in my head.

I really haven't felt the need to go back to reddit much. But the niche communities could use a lot more users posting and creating new content.

I would like to thank everyone on here for the last two months or whatever it's been from the start of the migration, and to the people just coming over, and those who were here already. I actually feel like I've grown as an individual in my time here. I'm starting to see certain patterns in my own behavior and working on them thanks to the content and the engaging discussions on here. I used to avoid interaction and lost all hope, but you are all really awesome. Thank you <3

First comment ever on lemmy! With reddit and the latest update moving shtiff around, it's gotten to a point where I no longer want to be apart of that app. Not mentioning the money grubbing infants over there... So I'm trying this one out! Thanks for staying open and active! 👍

185 comments are mine! :)

And 7 posts...

To the moon!

Also think about how many more lurkers there are. There are many more lurkers than people making posts and comments.

Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I'm a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂

Having the sync app has made the transition so much easier. I don't know if the same level of discussion will ever happen here, but I'm going to give it a try. I'm done going to the bot farm over there

🚀 more posters less lurkers!

Welcome you guys, I ditched Reddit and made this happen.

Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!

all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change

How does a cumulative line graph, with a running total that only ever increases, possibly descend rather than plateau?

More posts like this. Data is beautiful

Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!

So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!

I'm new to Lemmy and I am using Sync for Lemmy but so far none of my comments are showing up. I'm attempting to comment from my browser this time and I hope it works.

Edit: my comments seem to be showing in browser but not via Sync for Lemmy. Can someone recommend different Lemmy app?

Edit: you guys are great, I uninstalled and restarted and now my comments are showing up along with all your replies that just popped up at once!

Honestly thats all Lemmy needs. Just more content body. This software is already a really amazing drop in replacement for reddit. To be honest its easier to navigate the federation aspect with Lemmy than it is for other federated services like mastodon in my opinion.

Joined yesterday coming here from Reddit. My favourite app no longer works (Reddit is fun) and I just can't get myself to use the official app. Lemmy seems pretty cool so far, only missing a few subs that were not super large on Reddit but are not really viable here due to a small number of users. Hopefully that will change if the number of users keeps growing so fast.

I bit the bullet after I read there the Sync app was released. Now I'm lurking until I find the communities I love best... and it feels like they're already starting to spring up. If I had the time to, I'd make and mod them myself.

Man, how are you guys keeping up with the servers and increase in traffic?

There is also a very clear upwards trend I would say 😁

Thanks, spez / Steve Huffman. Now do us all a favor and fire yourself. It would probably drive that traffic back down slightly, but we could live with it.

Lemmy.world better keep up

Stonks!

What happened on July 29th?

At first I thought it was Sync coming out, but it came out on August 2

This is surprising. Hopefully organic driven growth instead of bullshit statistics like threads and their stupidity.

If RiF ports their app to Lemmy, have it as nearly functionally as it was on Reddit as possible while accommodating the ways lemmy is different, I think it would be a winner.

I know a lot of communities are trying to get more popular by using bots to post relevant content. And generally they do a great job, its like an aggregator inside an aggregator. woa dude. Post engagement might be a better metric, but this graph is visually more impressive.

And a hearty F.U. to reddit

Want to see more people commenting on threads that have nothing to do with how well Lemmy is doing.

That chart gives me 2017 crypto vibes and I dig it

i'm seeing a lot more content here recently, which is why I keep coming back.

guessing this doesn't include hexbear.net because they aren't federated yet but they have 270k posts and 3.6 million comments on their own, mostly well before the start of this graph, so it ought to start at more like 500k

But I'm so glad to see lemmy taking off properly, not just used for some niches. FOSS internet infrastructure that is accessible to end users is so important, it safeguards a lot of important freedoms, etc.

Ya I'm surprised it moved that fast but that's awesome, be sweet if it keeps up the momentum and gets as big as Reddit.

Well I'm not helping much, just lurking with a few comments. Hell yeah go us

Someone migrate Qanon Casualties to Lemmy 🤕

At that rate lemmy will reach 1 billion in 184 days

Daily users have almost halved in the last month. Guessing a purge of bots or something

Burn, reddit, burn.

Thank for helping me fight my Social Media addiction. You guys made it look easy

We're doing the thing!

this isnt a social media home anymore. This place felt like a big home for all.

Great for Lemmy. Glad it is doing so well.

Very good, I hope this platform has a bright future. We really need more like this, out of the control of giant companies.

At the same time, I hope they will develop more features to make it harder for content to disappear if an instance every goes down and for users to migrate their accounts.

What caused that giant leap a few days before end of July?

That's a lot of shit

Interesting, but why would it ever go down?

Great growth so far. How does this compare to Reddit?

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I'm almost purely a mobile user - as soon as sync enables post generation I'm all over it.

Could you license this image under CCBY so that it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? I'd add it to here. Let me know if that's okay or if CCBY is mentioned somewhere.

Go you good thing.

Helping out the numbers :)

Is 29 July sync?

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Very nice, now lets see the data about how many new communities are being created on lemmy

This is the way. It doesn't have to happen all at once. Positive growth is good.

July 30 comments when from 7.1 million to 9.9 million. In a single day?

Let's keep it up! To the moon! 🤣

We'll see how lemmy goes.

404k posts on our instance, testing the limits 😜

Interesting, I just joined because of Reddit banning me for a Gorlock the Destroyer meme

Great scot! 1.21 Gigawatts of active users!

Hello my lithuanian friends :)

How about the current situation? These numbers are soon a year old!

Let's goooooo!

🎉🎉

Good news

What about comments though?

Well, a bunch of them are reddit bot posts

Crazy, i Like IT

nice

it's yuuuuuge!

It would be interesting to see this on a log scale. Simple enough to do, but I'm on mobile and I'm not that interested

What happened on the 29th of July that it had another big jump?

Cute

Hey guys, an android client for lemmy 😀 😅 please

For the Lemmy!

Somebody should make an app that uses the anonymous Reddit JSON API to copy the popular Reddit posts and post them over here.

It would be faster if we knew how to use this whole fediverse thing

Not a surprise tbh

and those post are 98% about reddit lmao

Guys, I've gone back. Turns out you can get Reddit revanced and remove the ads/promoted posts so I'm fine with the Reddit app now. I'm kinda using both but there's just so much more content on Reddit.