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@lemmy.world 157 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] Cthuwu@lemmy.world 86 points 11 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

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Only if the content is organic. Look at !photoshopbattles@lemmy.world . Full of bot posts from reddit with 0 comments. Even if one of them gets a comment, it would get drowned out by the subsequent bot posts. Blindly filling a community with bot posts would eventually make people unsub from it.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

I'm sure those bots are well intended, but I would rather not see bots just copying posts from reddit blindly. When you sort all by new, it's just a swamp of bot posts.

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[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

And when comments are measured, you can say 'but it's just a small group making lots of comments'.

And when users are measured, you can say 'but they're just lurkers'.

Etc, etc. You can always naysay everything. This is impressive growth.

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 123 points 11 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.

[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 42 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Be the more you want to see

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

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

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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 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@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 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! 👍

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Welcome home!
Literally, the more the merrier.

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] WorldieBoi@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

🚀 more posters less lurkers!

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 28 points 11 months ago

I'm doing my part!

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Right now my modus operandi is to post once in each community I see that I can provide anything for.

[–] Cybernetik@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 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.

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[–] dimlo@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (5 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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[–] thenerdjournals@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

I'm new to Lemmy and I am using Sync for Lemmy but so far none of my comments are showing up. I'm attempting to comment from my browser this time and I hope it works.

Edit: my comments seem to be showing in browser but not via Sync for Lemmy. Can someone recommend different Lemmy app?

Edit: you guys are great, I uninstalled and restarted and now my comments are showing up along with all your replies that just popped up at once!

[–] upandadam@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

You can 100% comment from Sync.

Source: This comment.

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[–] raker@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!

[–] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Thanks, spez / Steve Huffman. Now do us all a favor and fire yourself. It would probably drive that traffic back down slightly, but we could live with it.

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[–] syl@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Stonks!

[–] Squander@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know a lot of communities are trying to get more popular by using bots to post relevant content. And generally they do a great job, its like an aggregator inside an aggregator. woa dude. Post engagement might be a better metric, but this graph is visually more impressive.

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not really enjoying the communities that use bots to create posts, considering I have to follow multiple variations of the community subject matter just in case. The engagement is definitely more important to me and what I'm missing most from reddit. It's building up though.

The only place where I wish there was a repost bot is the BestofUpdates community (can't remember the name). I crave those stories and don't care if it isn't a human porting them over to Lemmy

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[–] Yuran@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Man, how are you guys keeping up with the servers and increase in traffic?

[–] Caoldence222@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

guessing this doesn't include hexbear.net because they aren't federated yet but they have 270k posts and 3.6 million comments on their own, mostly well before the start of this graph, so it ought to start at more like 500k

But I'm so glad to see lemmy taking off properly, not just used for some niches. FOSS internet infrastructure that is accessible to end users is so important, it safeguards a lot of important freedoms, etc.

[–] not_awake@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

What's the story behind this defederation? I missed that

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[–] faethon@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

There is also a very clear upwards trend I would say 😁

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Burn, reddit, burn.

[–] victron@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world better keep up

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[–] comradeRichard@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 11 months ago

Well I'm not helping much, just lurking with a few comments. Hell yeah go us

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're doing the thing!

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[–] fabio1@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

i'm seeing a lot more content here recently, which is why I keep coming back.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

That chart gives me 2017 crypto vibes and I dig it

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What happened on July 29th?

At first I thought it was Sync coming out, but it came out on August 2

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There was a problem with lemmy.world where it would not sync with other federation. It has been fixed now.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

And a hearty F.U. to reddit

[–] Bosa@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Ya I'm surprised it moved that fast but that's awesome, be sweet if it keeps up the momentum and gets as big as Reddit.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Someone migrate Qanon Casualties to Lemmy 🤕

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