So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: https://i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png

This can seem a bit sad at a first glance. Where are we heading? But one has to remember that back during the summer many of us created several accounts to settle at an instance, there were also problems with spam-bots of various kinds.

So active users in itself is actually not that interesting. At least not the comparison with the peak. Instead we can watch the total amount of posts, how is that looking?

Well it’s steadily going up actually: https://i.imgur.com/i3Vse7Y.png

Though the increase has gone down slightly. This number however is influenced by other parameters as well. There are several reposts bots and such that mass-post to different instances. But it’s definitley a good tell it’s not going down.

Another interesting factor is comments: https://imgur.com/hWT8xvF

The amount of comments per month has gone down, but not by all that much. A 10% decrease from the top or so. What’s interesting here is that the decline has plateaued, which could indicate that the userbase has settled and become somewhat consistent. This is great news.

All in all, it seems like Lemmy has settled into a rather comfortable spot, with a decent amount of users, posts and comments. That is very slightly decreasing. Ideally we’d like to see this trend reverse, and perhaps that might happen naturally with due time when things have settled even more. For Lemmy I’d reckon the growth will look a bit like this. Whenever Reddit does something horrific (and it will happen more), we’ll see a mass-exodus with more users over here. Then it’ll decrease for a bit, settle and hopefully we can rinse and repeat. Anyway - that’s some irrelevant thoughts from me on the subject.

Just wanted to post these rather good statistics!

  • @[email protected]
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    471 year ago

    Every comment in lemmy is a genuine contribution. What I hated most in reddit was chaining single letter comments to achieve what the shit. Makes me wanna barf.

    • @[email protected]
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      441 year ago

      This.

      Edit: Thank you for the gold kind stranger!

      Kidding aside, it’s nice to show up to a thread and be able to join in rather than shouting into the void of thousands of other users.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Same. I don’t miss that, or much, but I think we can all agree on missing the genius of Shittymorph. He truly had a way of gripping you into a comment and then suddenly it’s nineteen ninety-eight again, and you finally look at the username. Truly entertained every time, was sad but understandable to see him retire.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        His timing is incredible, I don’t know how he does it. He stays away just long enough for the paranoia of getting pranked lulls, and then he hits you with the lols hammer. He got me a couple of days ago while I was lurking in one of the subs.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Oh shit, he’s actually around again? Last I heard he had “hung up the hat” so to speak. Perhaps that itself was a ruse!

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            He is! It was three to four days ago max. He is definitely a loved character as the whole thread lit up once they realized they got got…

      • Wrench Wizard
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        31 year ago

        I’d forgotten about that guy! Loved him and can honestly say he’s one genuine thing about that place that I miss.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      To a certain degree, yes…but I feel like Lemmy has a lot more posts with comments chiming in only to sound smart or contrary. It’s super annoying, and I can’t tell if it’s better or worse than the constant in-jokes from reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I feel like much of Reddit has the same problem to varying degrees depending on the sub (saw it all the time on r/Android and r/Apple, but didn’t see it at all on smaller/chiller subs like r/Tamagotchi). I don’t like seeing it on Lemmy either though, it’s not something the community or platform should positively reinforce

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      atm what makes me barf is the amount of spam. there’s tooo much of it on larger subs. i’m not clicking on your link gtfo.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        To be spiteful I was thinking of selling my account to spammers to poison the well back there. I haven’t yet, but I’m still considering it.

    • rigatti
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      21 year ago

      I fell into the habit of just hiding the top comment on every thread because it was usually useless. They either didn’t read the article or would be making a bad joke.

    • Franzia
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      21 year ago

      I’m starting to feel concerned with the many new low engagement communities that are copy pasted from reddit. I think there is a lot of value in feeling like you are in the company of people as smart as or smarter than you. That there is the potential to discover something new or grow.