Impressive, I guess, but how many of those 2 million posts have a single comment? If 90% of these are just bots reposting things from Reddit with no further engagement…

[–] ohlaph 262 points 10 months ago (8 children)

The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.

[–] Cthuwu 126 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is my thoughts as well. I’ve noticed that once one or two people express interest in a post, it tends to get much more traffic

[–] GenericJeebus 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I used to lurk like crazy on reddit. I had a nearly 12 year old account that mainly had a few comments here and there months apart, and only a few posts but ever since moving to Lemmy I've found myself actually posting relatively frequently to help build some of the smaller communities I'm in that have also migrated.

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[–] I_Fart_Glitter 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hey! Some of those posts with no comments are me posting pictures of cute bugs that I took! I'm not a bot, I'm just not very interesting.

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[–] Leviathan 152 points 10 months ago (5 children)

All I'm missing is the more niche communities to grow. It's good to see lots of memes and engagement but a man needs more.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Be the more you want to see

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.

[–] tacosplease 27 points 10 months ago

Gotta start somewhere. Yell into the void! Maybe there are some ears you didn't see.

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[–] Hazdaz 104 points 10 months ago (39 children)

Man, I really hope more traffic starts heading into some of the more niche communities because getting a new thread every day or there and getting 1 or 2 replies - if that - is not how you sustain a site.

Are there really that few people into cars or engineering or DIY stuff on Lemmy?! Where the fuck are my fellow car and tinkering nerds at? And no one does projects around the house? So few posts in some of the home owner communities as well.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We really need more bread-stapled-to-trees content. That shit held Reddit up

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I think part of the problem is finding communities.

I search for things, but they all look so small I assume that can't be the proper one and end up not joining it. I'm not convinced I'm seeing the full list of what's out there.

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[–] motor_spirit 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll message my dude Mark to join up, mother fucker loves anything mechanical.

[–] subarctictundra 29 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Looking forward to having Mark on here

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Most of us are probably computer nerds right now.... And I think a lot of people are afraid of posting their own post. It's safer to just comment. But Lemmy is a very friendly community, so I think maybe people need to adjust from reddit a bit.

If you are reading this and haven't made a post, make one now. :) Even if it's just about asking why nobody posts in a specific community. Usually gets replies.

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[–] slumberlust 93 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Over half my feed is just low effort memes or auto posted arstechnica articles. Does this data include bot posts?

[–] nicolairathjen 60 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Half the posts are also just people specualting about activity on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also, there is approximately 50% of postings reserved for whinging about the speculation of activity on Lemmy.

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[–] butternuts 85 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Lemmy does seem to have enough content and user engagement for my needs. I've noticed engagement going up the past month but wasn't sure I was making that up in my head.

I really haven't felt the need to go back to reddit much. But the niche communities could use a lot more users posting and creating new content.

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[–] Clbull 85 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wonder how the graph will look in a month's time now that Sync is in open beta.

[–] tjtherealbest 81 points 10 months ago (28 children)

As someone who never used Sync before, trust me, it will spike like crazy. I don't know why I never used it before but this an amazing experience. If you're reading this and trying to find a Lemmy app to use and don't care about FOSS, get Sync ASAP

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As someone who has been using sync for reddit for years, the app has come a long way and learned a lot over that time, and pretty much all of that is transferred over to the Sync for Lemmy app. The sync for Lemmy app really has a huge head start thanks to the Sync for Reddit app.

I remember when Reddit was releasing their app, they appeared to base it on Sync, and you can still see a lot of that influence today. I remember the Sync dev thinking it was all over for his app, since Reddit is copying his design and surely has a team that can develop a good app, but obviously Reddit stole a good design and ruined it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

A lot of that came from Alien Blue too (rip)

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[–] MiddleWeigh 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

I would like to thank everyone on here for the last two months or whatever it's been from the start of the migration, and to the people just coming over, and those who were here already. I actually feel like I've grown as an individual in my time here. I'm starting to see certain patterns in my own behavior and working on them thanks to the content and the engaging discussions on here. I used to avoid interaction and lost all hope, but you are all really awesome. Thank you <3

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[–] MrHindsight 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

First comment ever on lemmy! With reddit and the latest update moving shtiff around, it's gotten to a point where I no longer want to be apart of that app. Not mentioning the money grubbing infants over there... So I'm trying this one out! Thanks for staying open and active! 👍

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

185 comments are mine! :)

And 7 posts...

To the moon!

Also think about how many more lurkers there are. There are many more lurkers than people making posts and comments.

[–] Custoslibera 31 points 10 months ago (5 children)

There are dozens of us lurking!

DOZENS!!!

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[–] Baba_booey1 54 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I'm a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂

[–] essentialatom 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dead on. Sync being available makes using Lemmy much more appealing.

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[–] Sami_Uso 53 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Having the sync app has made the transition so much easier. I don't know if the same level of discussion will ever happen here, but I'm going to give it a try. I'm done going to the bot farm over there

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

🚀 more posters less lurkers!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part!

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[–] Yoz 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Welcome you guys, I ditched Reddit and made this happen.

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[–] Cybernetik 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!

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[–] dimlo 36 points 10 months ago (7 children)

all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change

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[–] favrion 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How does a cumulative line graph, with a running total that only ever increases, possibly descend rather than plateau?

[–] Paulius 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure exactly how the Fediverse Observer calculates the day-to-day totals, but my speculation for the dips in the graph is:

Some of Lemmy's servers/instances going offline could cause the total to go down;
Post deletion could also contribute to the total going down.

These dips in the graph confused people in my previous post, as the dips were suggesting that the graph represents 'new posts by day.' I edited the title in the screenshot this time to clarify it is total by day.

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[–] Guster 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)