Lemmy's daily user activity skyrockets with a 1200% surge so far this month!

This is a better metric than registered users. I'm enjoying this early stage of lemmy where everyone seems eager to use the platform. It's giving the same vibes as the old forums I used to participate in the early days of the internet. We just need more content creators and we are set!
- The comment sections have been pretty engaging in the communities that are getting established quickly, but I can't wait for more people to start posting. I have a community for SpacePorn and it's just me posting things and almost 100 people watching with the very rare occasional comment popping up. It's a little frustrating feeling like I have to keep entertaining everyone, when I just want others to join in 😅.
  
  I’m in a similar situation in !ultralight@lemmy.world. Getting people engaged is a bit like getting people to dance at a party, many people want to but someone has to break the ice… things I’ve tried is pinning a post asking people to stop by and say hi, also comment on each post so there’s something to latch onto, people won’t click in with 0 comments. You can also try a joke post to break the ice, in the case of SpacePorn you could combine a picture of a galaxy and a swimsuit model and say “Am I doing this right?!?” or something; it’s stupid but hopefully it makes someone laugh.
  
  Made the !half_life community yesterday and it does feel like this. The only other post is a post my friend made so I could promote him to moderator. I don't have much experience so I'm not sure I'm able to fully understand your situation though.
- yep! I'm not much of a conversation starter but love diving into comments, let's hope it keeps growing
  
  Same. I‘m missing a lot of niche hobby subs (duh) over here which I’m mainly active on, and that‘s about it, honestly. Design and performance could be a lot better too. I‘ll stick around and see where it goes.
- Just tell me where to post photos of a Whippet in a hat and I'm there. 👍

Woot woot!
I’ve been commenting here more than I did on Reddit where I lurked accountless on old.reddit, let’s hope the trend continues.
- Exactly. This right here is a microcosm of that. I discussed poetry with someone last night. I haven’t discussed that in years! It’s nice here.
  
  Ps, I just saw how many posts you’ve created and wanted to thank you for all the effort you are putting in here. I spend a ton of time surfing, and appreciate all the work that the technical people are doing to allow us to have a new home.
  
  You can say that :D

I didn't think I would get on with Lemmy but it's actually really good!

Much better statistic than total users due to all the spam bots recently created.
- Begun, the clone wars have
- What is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
  
  50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don't need to make accounts. It's very suspicious.
  
  There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.
  Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be "lurking-only" servers? Hardly.

LINE GO UP
LINE GO UP
This kind of growth is absolutely insane.

Reddit refugee here.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes
- As long as a good amount of us refugees contribute to help make this a vibrant and interesting community by sharing thoughts and interests, this should go pretty well. I’m loving it so far. Cheers!
  
  Already dropped 10 or so comments :)
  
  Made a community :)

Next part of the Fediverse I'd like to see grow like that is PeerTube, so we can flip the Red Site a (few thaousands of) middle finger.
- I think that is more complicated, as the channels need to generate revenue. Additionally, videos take up much more storage, and there is no option to select an instance like Lemmy. I only see options to selfhost.
  
  I'm not sure what you mean about no option to select an instance. Here is an example instance with open signups: https://libre.video. You can find more here: https://the-federation.info/platform/29
  Youtubers could gradually switch to PeerTube by uploading videos to both sites for now. They would make money the same way they do currently - through sponsorships and donations. I'm sure many of them can afford to host their own instance. It would actually benefit them, because if YouTube suddenly bans them for some reason, they would have an alternative that their fans would know about.
- I'm doing my part!

I hopped over recently. Very happy to be here.

Finally, a useful stats as total user count skewed by bot spam.
Speaking of bots, they are still inactive aren't they?
- For the most part they seem to be. There's an instance with like 50k "users" but only 10 active, which tells me the bots are registering but most aren't being used yet.
  
  It is a bit unnerving to have bots to human ratio that high on the network. I hope they will never activated and many compromized servers get cleaned before something bad happens.

On the first I expect a huge jump.
- Yeah, I'd imagine so. I'm only briefly checking reddit now, and that's only through Relay. The second that becomes unavailable, I am officially done.

We did it Lemmy!
Gotta get used to saying that.

Everytime I look, that sharp rise on the right keeps getting taller.
- That's what brought me in. Used sync for Reddit, wanna be familiar with how this works for when I use sync for lemmy
  
  While Relay was my preferred app, Sync was definitely another beautiful option. And likely the app I'll hop to as soon as it becomes available.
- we goin' vertical fam

I wonder how many of those are active users vs spam / bots
- I’ve only seen one or two spam bots so i can’t imagine it’s alot.
  
  Ironically, you've double posted this comment.
  
  As an AI language model, I can't imagine at all.
- I’ve only seen one or two spam bots so i can’t imagine it’s alot.
- That's kinda the thing? I don't see any spam or botting... Unless AI is doing all of it? Maybe spammers are setting up servers to Federate then getting de-Federated when they initiate their BS.

I'm glad we're taking off. The sooner we can shift our communities over to the fediverse, the better.

Yes yeees, amazing, keep making your users hate you reddit, hehehehe

stönk

I don't post much other than memes but I comment lots and try to upvote quality posts. Reddit is dead to me, I spend too much of my time on social medias anyways.
- @Cybermass @MicroWave My rule of thumb for all social media is:
  How much of my life am I spending watching others live theirs?
  It's a unique 'tipping point' for each person, but once reached it's time to log off and pursue other endeavors.
  
  thats actually a smart way to see it.

Hopefully not majority bots
- I tend to sort by new and all, and it seems like the majority is bots copying posts over from reddit, they have original link to the post on Reddit but there is the bot disclaimer on a lot of posts recently. Maybe it will die down a little once these bots move all the data from reddit to lemmy
- These are not, bots are mostly dormant currently.
  
  That's what I was hoping/assuming, but it does worry me at the same time.
- Same here! Hopefully enough come/stay to get a nice community going

If you take a look on fedidb.org, there's a TON of instances with 30,000 users but 1 active user. I checked one and the admin had commented that he had email verification off but manual approval on and wasn't getting anyone registering, so he turned manual approval off too. Welp.

It’s good to see. On June 30/July 1 we’re likely to see another big influx of users when the Reddit API changes go into effect and Apollo et al shut down.

Just joined. I really hope this kicks off, because it would be sad to see reddit prosper after all the greedy nonsense.
- I hope that's the case, all this decentralized social media is really confusing, esp mastodon, some suggest to pick non-crowded instance but then your post wont appear on other instance (cmiiw)
- Same feeling here, let's hope lemmy gains enough traction so that it can at least be self-sustainable and independent of reddit's dramas

Surprising it's gained this much traction, considering Reddit literally doesn't allow this site to be linked on their platform (which is honestly so petty)
- Is there something I'm missing here?

- You actually can't easily, any Lemmy links are just blocked and the Reddit admins are often looking for traces of the site on their platform.

btw. can this instance handle the load?
- Lemmy.world can apparently handle up to a million users with the current configuration. I'm not sure what instance you're on, though.
  
  I'm kind of new to the Fediverse, but since their username does not have a "@instance-name" it means he is on the same one as yours, right? Which would be "lemmy.world".
  
  @jennwiththesea @oneofsix
  I'm curious how this is working, since I commented on Jenn's post on Lemmy.world but don't see it here.
  Is there some 'behind the scenes' magic at work that I've yet to decode?
  
  I hope we get to find out if that's true!
- It doesn't really. They would just shut down sign ups.

Now thats a healthy looking curve, nice!

Those are rookie numbers, the fediverse must grow ✌🏻👀

Just got here using WefWef as a daily Apollo user. I’ll be browsing daily after June since Reddit is killing third party apps. I think a lot of people are in the same boat.

Damn. That's a pretty impressive bump.

Really neat to be along for the ride. Hopefully this momentum continues and the whole "There's no viable alternative" narrative is emphatically proven both false and idiotic.

I just joined last night after leaving Reddit for green pastures here and am happy to support the site.

Really nice growth and July 1st will probably get another bump upwards, I think it's safe to say Lemmy is the future

awesome. moved here a couple of days ago. like it here. but please improve the ios app
- Have you tried Memmy? Personally I think it’s the best one so far
- Testing a few, amd Memmy is what I'm going with for now. Active dev, always adding features and squashing bugs

- browse.feddit.de should help
  
  The Lemmy Explorer is a really cool new project to find communities

You love to see it

Hi! I'm a new arrival. I left Digg for Reddit back when and now I've left Reddit for Lemmy! I won't be going back 'irregardless' and am very excited to see this community and the Fediverse at large progress through its growing stages! I would have left Reddit earlier and had been looking for an alternative for a few years now. I guess I owe Lifehacker a big thanks for the recommendation and the rest of you can hold them in your ire cuz here I am!

New here. Trying to understand how everything works. I signed up in lemmy.world, do i also need to sign up if i want to interact with other instances?