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[–] 246 points 3 years ago (19 children)

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…

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  • [–] 266 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.

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  • [–] 129 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is my thoughts as well. I’ve noticed that once one or two people express interest in a post, it tends to get much more traffic

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    [–] 154 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 105 points 3 years ago (39 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Most of us are probably computer nerds right now.... And I think a lot of people are afraid of posting their own post. It's safer to just comment. But Lemmy is a very friendly community, so I think maybe people need to adjust from reddit a bit.

    If you are reading this and haven't made a post, make one now. :) Even if it's just about asking why nobody posts in a specific community. Usually gets replies.

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    [–] 95 points 3 years ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Half the posts are also just people specualting about activity on lemmy.

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    [–] 87 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 82 points 3 years ago (28 children)

    As someone who never used Sync before, trust me, it will spike like crazy. I don't know why I never used it before but this an amazing experience. If you're reading this and trying to find a Lemmy app to use and don't care about FOSS, get Sync ASAP

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    As someone who has been using sync for reddit for years, the app has come a long way and learned a lot over that time, and pretty much all of that is transferred over to the Sync for Lemmy app. The sync for Lemmy app really has a huge head start thanks to the Sync for Reddit app.

    I remember when Reddit was releasing their app, they appeared to base it on Sync, and you can still see a lot of that influence today. I remember the Sync dev thinking it was all over for his app, since Reddit is copying his design and surely has a team that can develop a good app, but obviously Reddit stole a good design and ruined it.

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    [–] 85 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 73 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    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

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    [–] 61 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (12 children)

    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! 👍

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    [–] 60 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago (10 children)

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

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    [–] 53 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    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

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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    🚀 more posters less lurkers!

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 40 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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

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    [–] 33 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    I'm not sure exactly how the Fediverse Observer calculates the day-to-day totals, but my speculation for the dips in the graph is:

    • Some of Lemmy's servers/instances going offline could cause the total to go down;
    • Post deletion could also contribute to the total going down.

    These dips in the graph confused people in my previous post, as the dips were suggesting that the graph represents 'new posts by day.' I edited the title in the screenshot this time to clarify it is total by day.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    More posts like this. Data is beautiful

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (26 children)

    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!

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

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

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