Lemmy's active users (content creators) see impressive 35% growth so far in July

It feels like a threshold has been crossed. Reddit related content is there but not so dominating as before. People are memeing other things, news and politics discussion is popping up, particularly popular posts from more niche communities as well, it feels like a much more healthy mix of content now compared to the beginning of July and especially compared to when I joined during the reddit blackout.

I’ve been lurking, thanks to these users for providing content for me to enjoy while procrastinating.

Holy smokes! Honestly I don’t know if we have or will make much of a dent in r*ddit, but at this point I don’t care. We’re building a new enthusiastic community and doing it fast. It’s a lot of fun.

Commenting so that I can continue to be a positive statistic. 🫡

It's weird these numbers are so small, it should feel dead. But there are a lot of great discussions and a lot of good laughs to be had here.

The level of engagement for the very small numbers here must be quite impressive.

I guess it's the old quality vs quantity.

I used to have a high barrier of thought prior to posting but now I just post whatever bullshit is on my mind at that moment just so I can keep threads active. Like I'm doing now

Super impressed with growth over the last week alone. I really was worried how I would adjust to not being on Reddit after Apollo died but I feel pretty encouraged now.

I feel like the real headline here is that active users are about 8x what they were a month ago.

That’s the thing, right? In trying to force everyone onto a dumpster fire of a main Reddit app, instead, they forced their MOST TECHNICAL and active user base to look at other options.

They even chased off their resources doing things for free, such as a massive bot detection network and large-subreddit moderation.

Everything is snowballing out of control and it’s barely getting started.

I’m waiting for the real protest. When a large collective of moderators decide to form an agreement to protest for compensation all at once. It could happen now that these moderators are seeing their friends being removed from self-created subreddits.

TL;DR: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

While there is definitely a bunch of content popping up now thanks to to influx of actuve users, there still are some more niche communities that were pretty active on old reddit that i guess just can get to critical mass on lemmy and so are pretty dead. I hope that can change going into the future though.

While this is encouraging, I wonder how many users have multiple active accounts, like I do.

So far so good but I haven't found the blackjack and hookers yet.

Doing my part to add statistical significance. This feels like using Reddit a decade ago. And that’s a great thing. Lots of room to expand and improve. It’s the age of discovery for the fediverse, and I’m looking forward to seeing how things evolve.

honestly I'm happy for know and use Lemmy platform, I thought that Reddit was a unique thing: but this is awesome, is its evolution

welcoming the new home with open arms 🙌🏻

Good job team

Ahh the future satisfaction I’ve given myself to me by being able to say 10 years from now “there were no posts! …no one knew what an instance was…” and hopefully it was still be good and that day im acting holier than thou

Thanks for the content active users!

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Well, there it is.

Great to see for Lemmy.

This scratches the itch

it’s been great so far and only getting better

I have made 464 comments in the last month appearently. Thats a lot more than on reddit for sure. And then I was on vacation for two weeks in that time... :)

There are dozens of us!

Nice! +1

Impressive stats all around. The way that reddit and reddit-likes work with feeds/frontpages you don’t need millions and millions of users for a place to feel active and worth visiting. Reddit was an interesting place all the way back in 2010 when I first started going there, and I imagine they had an order of magnitude less users back then in the pre-smartphone app era.

With more users you get more of an eternal september effect… but you also get tons of people that might frictionlessly see and participate in more nische communities.

as a kbin user

We need MORE!

I'd better comment then.

35% in a week is pretty good. I feel like from here we’ll see steady growth and continue building and when Reddit inevitably kills oldreddit we’ll get a big influx and be ready for it.

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lesgooooo!

Keep it up

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did I contributie lmao?