Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
There was a surge when Reddit killed 3rd Party Apps, and another when Sync arrived. (EDIT 2: Actually, this latest surge is on July 30-31… A day or two before Sync. It might be botspam.)
One nice thing about Lemmy’s growth, compared to Mastodon… The people who came here appear to be sticking around & continuing to comment.
EDIT: One thing to note about total user counts here… They can be misleading. There have been a few instances that were flooded with bot accounts that got purged over the last month or two.
Do you know whether the same chart (or raw data?!?) exists but minus say purged instances? Is that even possible?
Not sure how useful it is, but you can choose various colums and get some further information here:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Interestingly there is some definite fuckery going on with the stats - one server has 80 users and 1.2 million comments. So this whole thread is probably rather pointless when stuff like that exists lol.
Thanks, that’s awesome!
In my case I was using a 3rd party app that was only barred from signing in to reddit, but I was still able to read and navigate the website until a few days ago. Now it seems that they have cut that access off so that drove me to create an account here.
I think it’s a good sign people are sticking around. A lot of people joined mastodon and instantly left because it was too much to figure out how to use. Lemmy is a lot better in its current state than where mastodon was during the first mass migrations.
I also think mastadon was trying to replace Facebook and twitter. A generalized assumption of those users is a lack of technical familiarity. Lemmy is the reddit alternative, and the users there tend to be way more technically proficient, or at least willing to learn.
Also there’s less friction to picking an instance. I’m not so worried about losing an anonymous account so I’ve made several on multiple instances
Totally agree joined Lemmy today and it feels just like Reddit with a few extra steps but oh well. Mastodon is it’s own beast to tackle
Impressive! Honestly I can totally understand this growth myself because it mirrors very well my own interactions here. When third party apps died I came here, tried a bunch of apps, made a bunch of comments and then didn’t really stick around because I couldn’t find a good enough app I liked.
Then when Sync released I have barely touched reddit and been 95% on Lemmy again.
I am still very impressed if Sync alone is responsible for 4 million additional comments per day though. That is rather staggering if it’s true.
Good point. I’m unsure on the exact dates/times/timezones involved but it does sort of look like there was a good increase in comments maybe a day or so before Sync release. If that is not Sync though I’m struggling to think what else would cause it…
I think a couple apps restarted on Lemmy around the same time Sync came out. I know boost showed up, and I’ve seen a bunch of newly released app announcement threads in the last week.
Probably a combination of new and better apps. I know I basically just lurked until sync came out. It just feels familiar, and all the features I want are just here. The only thing I think I want, is to see how many down votes are on posts, but it’s literally the only thing I can think of.
Mastodon has 2M active users and has been steady for quite a while now. Fediverse is growing, maturing. Also Lemmy is trying to compete with Reddit, and Mastodon is trying to compete wuth Twitter. Lemmy and Mastodon are not actually competing with each other.
An interesting tidbit: apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform. It’s a bit buggy though, and while you can ping people and they can comment here, it doesn’t really work the same way on the other side.
At least there’s a remindme bot via mastodon.
apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform.
What are you referring to exactly? Sounds a bit like kbin but I get the sense that’s not what you’re talking about.
Mastodon users can also create posts on Lemmy communities by tagging the community itself with an @.
