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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35% in a week is pretty good. I feel like from here we’ll see steady growth and continue building and when Reddit inevitably kills oldreddit we’ll get a big influx and be ready for it.
it’s been great so far and only getting better
honestly I’m happy for know and use Lemmy platform, I thought that Reddit was a unique thing: but this is awesome, is its evolution
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Great to see for Lemmy.
I’m part my doing!
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
That’s exactly why I’ve always been a mere lurker. Maybe I should change that!
Thank you for your service! o7
No need to thank me, shitposting is my godgiven duty o7
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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.
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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.
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.
And with different purposes and contributions
Hmm I like this but maybe I will do one for each mood I am in.
There are dozens of us!
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.
On first read I really thought you said “… a bunch of content pooping up…”, which would have been very lemmy actually :-)
If the community you’re looking for exists but doesn’t contain posts, the best thing you can do is to start posting yourself, no matter the quality you think your content has.
Humans tend to follow others, which leads to both positive and negative feedback loops. If nobody is posting, anyone discovering the community will think “oh this place is dead, no point in posting”.
Being the first to break the ice and do something in a group setting is scary, but once somebody is doing it it’s much more likely others will join in.
It’s often uncomfortable to be the first person to start dancing to the music, but have you noticed how much easier it is for everyone else to join in when that one guy starts going off?
That’s a great way of looking at it.
Well, there it is.
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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.
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
Amaaaaaazing username! Love it!
Haha thank you <3
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.
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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.
