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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave to c/fediverse
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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[–] ClassyHatter 124 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

  • r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
  • Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] Cytoplasm2435 16 points 2 years ago

I think most are still figuring out how this all works. I barely did anything the first couple days too. Its a bit confusing at first and takes some time for people to find their place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000,

I'm pretty sure that's just how social media works. Only 1-3% are active users, while the rest of it are lurkers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well, for Lemmy 1 of 5 users was active right before the jump, and when the 219'519 new users (*) came, the active user count only increased by 2,873, so 1 of 74 new users was active.
When hundreds of thousands of users are so interested in a new platform that they storm it in a few hours, wouldn't you expect them to initially engage a lot, rather than basically all being inactive from the start? Especially if they are early adopters, coming just days after most of the other users which turn out to be pretty active?

(*: Apparently the latest numbers from fediverse.observer are live or updated multiple times a day, so it's again some 20,000 new users since my earlier post which already had different numbers than the OP.)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?

[–] nepenthes 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I found out today that Sync for Reddit developer, LJ, is making an app for Lemmy, so I made an account here. (I've been on Kbin since the strike started.)

[–] peetabix 5 points 2 years ago

Really? That's awesome news. I loved Sync.

[–] SMT42 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly why this is my first ever Lemmy comment today!