this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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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] 37 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] baggins 10 points 2 years 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] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 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] 19 points 2 years 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] 10 points 2 years ago (2 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] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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] 5 points 2 years ago

Okay, here's my first comment.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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] 11 points 2 years 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.

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

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So not even counting the lurkers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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] 4 points 2 years 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] 10 points 2 years ago

Upping the active count, no lurking for me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (11 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] 8 points 2 years 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 2 years 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] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Does this comment make me active now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That is correct. You would be counted in the next time they run the stats for this instance.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This seems like very important information worth sharing in general but also wherever these stats are posted including in the software itself (via (?) or tooltip).

It also means that the real number of active users, which includes lurkers, is actually higher.

I still think the majority of registered users are bots though. I don't think we have actually have 2,000,000 people on here.

What's a good estimate of lurkers? 10% of actives? 200% of actives?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It certainly is better than Reddit, although that's not exactly hard to achieve to be fair.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The 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 the bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yeah, it's absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively seeking out instances without registration validation and flocking to them. The top real instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The site has felt way more usable in the last week, too. Haven't had much time to contribute myself, but I was browsing Active last night and thought to myself "hey, this feels just like the Reddit I know and love"

Once the niche communities take the plunge, its endgame for Reddit

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

have been loving it so far, the jerboa app is either a bit buggy or this instance is having troubles

wishing sync devs could eventually adapt for lemmy, as i really liked the ui

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The sync dev is currently working on a Lemmy version. It won't be long.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We are all testing the waters. After a day i can say that the platform have a huge potential. Just be sure to use a well updated, fully integrated app for the best experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm really hoping we get more and more users here. I miss having the niche communities that were still populated.

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

I am totally active, boys.

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

Commenting so I am active.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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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