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 262 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] Cthuwu@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year 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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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year 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 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Be the more you want to see

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year 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.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 31 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Looking forward to having Mark on here

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Hominine@lemonine.hominine.xyz 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] tjtherealbest@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year 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

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year 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.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] butternuts@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year 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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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are dozens of us lurking!

DOZENS!!!

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[–] Baba_booey1@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year 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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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🚀 more posters less lurkers!

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part!

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Cybernetik@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!

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[–] dimlo@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Paulius@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)