I'm practically a fixture on Lemmy, and I view everything sorted by newest comments so I see only new posts and posts actively being participated in through replies and I'd say it's only slightly less active than Reddit appearance wise. Surely there is less things being posted over all, but I can just refresh the page every few seconds and get entirely new posts almost every single time, barring a few hours in the middle of the week.

I know that someone has a statistic site for Lemmy that could actually show you exactly what you wanna know, but I haven't saved the URL and don't know it off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There's a reason why old forums' only sorting method was thread bumping.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reddit is very quiet lately, probably due to school breaks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The dips I see on Lemmy are probably from people actually working. I at least have a job where nobody cares if I use my phone because I can still work while fucking around on it, so long as it's not in the dining room where customers can see me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you've got time to lean you got time to clean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Now the trick is to make sure you lean with a cloth or a broom in your hand. That way everyone thinks you are cleaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh yeah definitely