Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It’ll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that’s okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I’ll do my best to help :)
- bijan ( @bijan@lemmy.ca ) English7•1 year ago
i think the idea of ‘lemmy day’ on reddit would be a good one. instead of linking to articles, post on lemmy and link to the lemmy post on reddit.
we did similar to digg all those years ago…
the idea has been floated to do this on August 1st…
- TruckBC ( @TruckBC@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
Just do it every day if you really want to still be active on Reddit.
- fixerdude2 ( @fixerdude2@lemmy.ca ) English5•1 year ago
So glad I found this place. Here to stay and grow this alternative.
- TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Is that bump just for lemmy.ca, or for all instances?
Top post is just lemmy.ca. I posted the all instances version in another comment and they look the same, more or less, just scaled up.
- TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Thank you! I was thinking surely there have been more than a couple thousand new converts. :)
One thing to note: Lemmy only counts you as active if you post or comment. So idle accounts won’t count in the total if they didn’t comment or post on that period.
Based on the assumption that 90% of all users are idle, this might actually be pretty good numbers from a network health perspective.
Compare to Reddit where a user is counted as active in any sub if they see a post from that sub. So hard to compare apples to apples.
- Tywèle [she|her] ( @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
I think the 90% assumption only holds true after some time. Because right now Lemmy is still the hot new thing which means that probably more than 10% of the people are active. Although that is probably changing right now as indicated by your graph.
- Che Banana ( @Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
no more doomscrolling, I’m down for the other stuff though.
…but no butt stuff.
…fool me 23,587 times
- Shadow ( @Shadow@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year ago
Yeah I think this is to be expected, I agree we’ll probably see slower consistent growth from here
Oh, source for chart: https://the-federation.info/node/details/19879 – lemmy.ca active users past month. The wider Lemmy chart looks similar.
- blakcod ( @blakcod@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this.
Been thinking a lot about the overall extent of content shared and user types involved in growth or just simple involvement.
What is it that we have found about our habits of use with migrating over from Reddit?
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Fulfillment of niche topics for informative need without commenting or low participation.
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Trend analysis on subject.
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Central point of truth or awareness for a subject.
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Community sense of belonging to subject.
I come to see new things I follow or to look for help on something. I like having somewhat of an aggregated news feed from several news sources.
I comment on things I feel I can contribute to but while typically not when it’s just an informative share. You get an upvote if it qualifies. Kind of like a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Communicated and Informed) approach.
R - you get a lengthy comment with possible responses.
A - A comment for follow up. With an upvote.
C - upvote and comment potentially usually a thank you
I - upvote as a thanks
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- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
Congrats in weathering the brunt! It’s been very exciting watching. However, I suspect it won’t be the last or largest wave.
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
Looks good to me so far. Slow growth means less work for admins and lower server cost. Lemmy has delivered more memorable moments over the last few weeks than Reddit has over the last few years. 🙌
- MarkG_108 ( @MarkG_108@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
I’m new here. I love Lemmy. It took me a bit to get it working right (issues with the language settings), but now that it is working, I think it’s great. I currently use it on my laptop, but I’m also considering an app for my phone. I found two here on F-Droid, those being Jerboa and lemmur. Does anyone have any opinions on which is the better app?
- MarkG_108 ( @MarkG_108@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
To answer my own question, I find that lemmur does not work on my phone. So, Jerboa it is.
- MisterMoo ( @MisterMoo@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Fans of The Office should come join us in /m/DunderMifflin on kbin. It’s practically an 05/05/05 party. We need posters and commenters!