this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.

According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rezz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

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[–] airehiso@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm gonna comment so as to be counted as active.

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[–] PurpleSquare@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Upping the active count, no lurking for me

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh so lurkers aren't counted as active? That's even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.

[–] JollyTheRancher@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed! That would be me, but I would now like to contribute to the totals so I am contributing this fairly worthless comment!

[–] pax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Another relatively useless comment! Just to contribute :)

[–] salimundo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've probably posted as much in Lemmy in a couple weeks as I did on reddit in several years, but as the say, be the change you want to see.

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[–] shriek@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, here's my first comment.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So not even counting the lurkers

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, lurkers aren't counted. Only those who have commented or posted within a specified period.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

this keeps getting touted but isn’t it a huge number of bots causing the rise?

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

The bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren't active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once the bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.

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[–] AussieTom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that's causing the rise in accounts (2.5m!) not the active accounts data

[–] MedicareForSome@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Everyone online is a bot except you.

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[–] Matharl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] realbaconator@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Nostromo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] Thurgo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you hold in a poo for three days?

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[–] davidzilla12345@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.

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[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] BrockSampson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does this comment make me active now?

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[–] iaamp@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ttyman_0386@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just signed up. Coming from reddit. Hopefully this is a good alternative.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Rasputain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Giving this place a shot... Can't be worse than Reddit

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[–] MrBobs@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

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

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[–] Atom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] banned@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MonkeyBoyLX@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Previously uncounted lurker also commenting for the stats.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

More than 2k upvotes for a post, impressive compared to last month!

[–] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] lemmetskiy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] Itshaysus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hi guys just made an account and deleted the Reddit app (after giving up hope and deleting Apollo). Guess this is where I’m hanging out now

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Synctrex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Cyzaine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Clipboards@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] yiguls@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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