4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1400% this month

It is very clear that new content per day has been steadily increasing the past 14 days.
Lemmy is no longer just promising, it is already good. With signs of getting even better.
With more active users, more niche communities should soon be able to do fine too.
- I already didn't read past the first few hundred comments on reddit- Lemmy already feels almost as good to use, way more than mastodon did coming from Twitter.
  
  Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.
- Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.

I'm gonna comment so as to be counted as active.
- Hey me too!
  
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  Me too, thanks.
- I'm not.
- i opened up this thread with the intention of doing just that— glad to see i’m not the only one lol
- Is this were everyone is hanging out today?
  
  Maybe? We're both here so...
- Brilliant.
- Reporting in
- I don’t think I have commented yet either; I’m still learning the ropes

I think it shows that the great migration from Reddit is actually happening. After the 1st of July, we can expect to see Lemmy growing even more since the changes on Reddit are gonna be in full effect.
- Agreed. I imagine the devs and admins here are looking at it as a bit of a deadline of sorts. It's going to be a big bump in traffic, best to have as much as you can in place.
  If you can have useable app out by then, you'll get a big sudden surge in interest. It's just a really nice opportunity for an aspiring dev.
- I'm really trying, the main thing I miss is the amount of content and the general navigability of reddit. Finding new subs was so easy and lemmy feels harder to just browse imo. I've moved to the lemmy RSS and deleted my reddit bookmarks to help keep me from going there out of weakness though.
  We'll see to what degree the migration stays/works. I would be very happy to see some competition in this space.
  
  https://sub.rehab/
  https://lemmyverse.net/communities
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
  Also native search works pretty well https://sh.itjust.works/search?q=cat&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
  These should help. Definitely agree about the amount of content. There's a lot of subs that haven't even migrated over yet.
  
  It is a bit harder due to fragmentation but it will get better, don't worry. Also plenty of new upcoming apps.
  
  I think it's going to be rough for sometime but the numbers seem promising thus far.
  Particularly when compared to any other reddit alterative.
- This is great and exciting news, but we do need to keep things in perspective. Jumping to almost 48,000 daily active users is great, but Reddit has about 55 million. That's essentially a rounding error as far as Reddit is concerned.
  
  People keep wishing death upon Reddit. I understand the emotion, but I wish Reddit a long life. Let it be the grease trap for doomscrollers, reposters, and political and corporate infiltration. I don’t want millions of people to join Lemmy. I want the mythical 1% active content creators to jump ship.
  
  I don't really see a problem with this. We already have enough that I can comment an engage with people. I can already ask a question and have 50 people give genuine thought out responses.
  That's enough for me.
  We're only on v0.18, some are not going to want a less refine product and that's okay. We're here building the momentum for when it's read for them.
  
  I'm curious what the make up of people migrating are. It could be the early adopters that helped Reddit build out the platform ahead of Digg collapsing. It could also be people who were looking for an excuse to leave because they didn't really like Reddit for one reason or another. I think I fall more in the fed up with Reddit and looking for anyone/anywhere doing it better.
- I won't use the official Reddit app, so my phone Reddit usage will drop to zero on July 1st.
- As soon as Lemmy gets a proper fully working app, like sync, it will be gangbusters.

Oh so lurkers aren't counted as active? That's even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.
- Indeed! That would be me, but I would now like to contribute to the totals so I am contributing this fairly worthless comment!
  
  Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)
  
  I'm an active user too!
- Okay, here's my first comment.
  
  Your comment was so insightful I just had to upvote it thus increasing 'engagement'. Am I helping?
  
  Good job! 🎉
- Here ya go.
- Not to mention the minute lemmy became promising, bot swarms descended and started making placeholder accounts
- Commenting now!

Upping the active count, no lurking for me

So not even counting the lurkers
- Worth noting we probably have a much higher engagement percentage than the average atm. Young community, cool new idea, gets people excited. Since the service isn't really ready for primetime yet, the only way to really pitch in and even just vent enthusiasm is to make content. For most of us that don't have dev skills anyway.
  
  Is there some metrics showing number of users with interactions like upvote/downtote?

Even if you do nothing else, make sure to upvote content and comments, and subscribe to communities. Bringing content over from reddit (or even just googling stuff) to the new applicable community would be extra helpful (a lot of empty communities at the moment).
Things keep looking better here, so I'm optimistic about lemmy.

There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.
100% honestly, I'm not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it's interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances' content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!
- 100% honestly, I’m not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it’s interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own
  I'd be curious to learn more about what problems you see? Many of the issues I see people outline come down to defederation and lack of centralization, but I'd argue those are features rather than bugs.
  There is work being done to make it easier to track content across identical communities on multiple instances, we're in very new territory here so the UX is still in flux and being figured out.

Thank you for showing the growth in ACTIVE users, not just accounts. Its still impressive, and more truthful!

I've been mostly a lurker on Reddit for the past 10 years but something about Lemmy just makes me want to engage in the community more than reddit ever has. Also it's incredibly impressive how quickly lemmy improved over the last weeks.

Just been lurking until now but I guess we can +1 that active user count. Just waiting for sync to add a lemmy app and then it's full steam ahead.
- Sync is reddit to me, so when it goes down I can't see myself going back. I set up a Lemmy account yesterday and am impressed so far knowing it's still in the early stages. I'm excited to see what LJ can do with Lemmy.
- Hell yeah, same.
- same

this keeps getting touted but isn’t it a huge number of bots causing the rise?
- This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?
  
  wait how did we conclude that the bots aren't active yet?
- My understanding is that's causing the rise in accounts (2.5m!) not the active accounts data
- Everyone online is a bot except you.
  
  Beep boop
- If they’re like NewsUser and Botittest, the bots will flood this place when they start. Even though these two good bots have made this place a lot more usable, it feels like that’s what the “All” thread has become. Just news.
  Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.
  Whichever the instances that lowered their guard were, there will be a day they will have to be defederated. It’ll be a test for this place, for sure.

The site has felt way more usable in the last week, too. Haven't had much time to contribute myself, but I was browsing Active last night and thought to myself "hey, this feels just like the Reddit I know and love"
Once the niche communities take the plunge, its endgame for Reddit
- I came here from r/sourdough so.... getting there
  
  Was not expecting that sub to have 410k members.
  Then again, sourdough is great, so I really shouldn't be surprised.

I am totally active, boys.
- Join us at !gaybros@lemmy.world then!
- 💀
- Post your ass off to keep it alive. Shitpost whenever you can.

Does this comment make me active now?
- That is correct. You would be counted in the next time they run the stats for this instance.
- Not sure, let's rise the odds together 👍
  
  Proud of you 2
  
  Triple threat?
  
  I'll contribute some activity, as well 🙂

So active users doesn't include users who are only browsing/voting on posts? If so that's even more impressive.

People say the real migration will happen on July 1st, but people can't move if they don't know where the apps are going.
Link people to Sync for Lemmy and Liftoff for Lemmy (already usable) on Android
and Memmy for Lemmy (already usable) for those on iOS.
- I doubt many people will move. Most people will just start using the official app or move to another website. Lemmy doesn't have much content (yet), and that's yet worse than not having a good app. They will just quick look and go back, if even.
  
  At this point content is definitely needed more than users. I really to stick with lemmy but the content just isn't here... Like you said (yet)
  Those Reddit echo bots are really starting to annoy me now too.
  I'm still hopeful though, I don't want to go back to Reddit
- Connect for Lemmy is in the Play store and not bad.
- Thunder and Summit are also pretty good suggestions for Android.
  I would link people to https://lemmy.world/post/465785
  
  I'm currently using Jerboa on android. Anything stand out that Thunder or Summit do better that's worth me taking a look at?
- Hadn't heard of Liftoff, will have to try it out. I'm using Jerboa right now and although a little bit buggy while scrolling it does the job. It's also pretty similar in terms of looks to RiF, which is what I was using until all this mess and it helps a little in the transition. Thanks for recommending!

Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.
- I'm on some cracked official Reddit app that has the ads fully removed. I am not sure if it will still work afterwards but switching to Lemmy anyway.
- I'm using old.reddit and once they get rid of that I'm gone!

+1. Bye Reddit. Hello Lemmy! Struggling a bit to find my way around. Excited to find so many people willing to contribute to make Lemmy their new home. Feels good to be here.

This seems like very important information worth sharing in general but also wherever these stats are posted including in the software itself (via (?) or tooltip).
It also means that the real number of active users, which includes lurkers, is actually higher.
I still think the majority of registered users are bots though. I don't think we have actually have 2,000,000 people on here.
What's a good estimate of lurkers? 10% of actives? 200% of actives?
- I'm a little bit of a lurker yes. I comment when I think I can add something to the discussion, but I usually like to read more than I contribute unfortunately.
- No one is in disagreement that bots are the majority of registered users.
- Usually places like this follow a 90-9-1 rule (though this will be skewed for now as all the people moving here from reddit are more likely to be in reddits 10%):
  90% lurk/simply view 9% participate (vote, etc) 1% create (effort posts, OP, etc).
  If we follow this then the actual non-bot number is closer to 400k than 2 million. As I said above though, currently it's skewed.
- If it's anything like /r/, it likely follows the 90/9/1 lurk/comment/post rule, or will, once the novelty wear soff and things settle.
  
  Indeed. However, the first group of users is about always the most active, so we probably have a little bit before we lock into 90/9/1.

This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

I've just registered, read this last night and had to comment just to be a part of it. Happy to find a really good alternative.

I'm here to boost that active user number. Hoping this takes off.

+1-I'm doing my part
- I'm doing my part too!

Didn't initially like the look of lemmy and tried Kbin, but kbin randomly was slow and has no way to hide posts. Lemmy seems snappier and more concise...hoping to find some ability to hide content if you upvote it. I love clearing my feeds up once i've seen content once.
edit: I see there's a hide read option in settings! What constitutes a read post on a desktop PC? Opening comments? simply scrolling past it? Interesting...
edit 2: ohhhh shit, opening comments AND it hides on upvote - fuck yes, well i'm here to stay then.
Cheers!

I just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.
- I've been here for a couple of days, if anything, I'm pleasantly surprised. This is not Reddit's first clusterfuck, and although there were alternatives at the time. It's finally nice to find something that isn't full of bigots.
  
  That has been the great thing about it, rediscovering that people can talk to strangers on the internet and actually be normal about it. Conversations here don't seem to devolve into fights as they invariably do on mainstream social sites. And I don't have to keep explaining to people that it's possible to care about other people, a concept which several people on Reddit told me was incomprehensible to them.
- We are all testing the waters. After a day i can say that the platform have a huge potential. Just be sure to use a well updated, fully integrated app for the best experience.
  
  I'm really hoping we get more and more users here. I miss having the niche communities that were still populated.
- Me too!

Now this is a metric I can get behind, instead of the million bot accounts

Here's to Lemmy's bright future!

And with all the apps pooping every 3 days it's getting even better!

Signed up like 15 minutes ago, count me in
- Welcome! Search Lemmy for "3 Day No Poop" to be totally caught up with last week's major events here.

Finally I know what counts as an active user thank you!

I’ve been lurking and trying to figure it all out so I’m not part of that stat so I’d imagine there are lots of folks like me. I’m not super active on Reddit but not having Apollo means I have to lurk somewhere else.
- Having a real app’s gonna help. I hope the 3PAs come soon.

Upvoting/Downvoting/Subscribing should count as active too. (From a lurker)

Man, I knew I made the right decision to promote "Barbie" on this Lemonworld thing instead of reddit.

This is great news for Lemmy, let's hope that community grows even larger, as more users leave reddit.

Instead of deleting my Reddit account, I'm replacing all my comments there with, "edit: //I've moved to Lemmy //"

Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.

Previously uncounted lurker also commenting for the stats.

Noice. To the moon!
- That expression sounds familiar. Where might I have heard it before? :D

Lemmy looked a bit complex, coming from Reddit, with the great app Sync for Reddit, but I like it here so far. Hoping Sync for Lemmy will soon be there!

I am so glad that I am part of this project. Keep it up!
PS: I am here from Reddit. 💪

Just found lemmy today, and I'm already liking it

I'm only one person but I never returned to Reddit after the blackout. They could do a complete u-turn and even make spz that little fucker walk the plank but I would still be done with that place.
I am really excited to see the community we build from here on out.

Welcome, Lenny users!

Fediverse social seem a thousand percent more chill and make me 100 percent less stressed and depressed than non fediverse social.

Lurker adding comment so I can be counted.
- Me too!

we are going to the moon boiss. let's fuckking go
🚀 🌕
- Lmao 🤣 But 💎👐

This is good and I hope the migration continues. The only way to truly fight back against Reddit isn't making subreddits go dark or posting John Oliver memes but rather just quietly leaving, deleting our accounts, and taking our content and energy elsewhere. That will truly destroy Reddit because without user generated content, it is nothing.

Hope Lemmy grows at a steady pace so the resources can keep up. It's amazing it's handeling this amount of Traffic already.

Lemmy feels really good compared to reddit

The numbers have to be higher. I've been lurking so far without commenting. I Imagin a lot of other people have been too.
- I see you, lurker!
- Lurker checking in 😶‍🌫️
- 100% they are higher. I too have been just a lurker so far so I guess I'll make my first comment now to add to the stats :)
- One of us...One of us...
- Yah, one more for the hockey stick.

Lurkers unite!

I wanted to join lemmy 2 years ago but it was strict and my appeal got rejected. Now in ya face