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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…
The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.
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
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The world could use more random ass-comments
I really just prefer genuine content personally. We don’t need to astroturf the site.
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.
Keep it up. I wish people would bring themself to comment so they count as active users.
I’m exactly the same. I feel like the opportunity to have a productive conversation on Lemmy is a lot higher. There are fewer of us right now but we are the motivated minority kicking Reddit to the curb for its terrible actions and we want to see Lemmy thrive.
Only if the content is organic. Look at [email protected] . 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.
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.
Edit: So I checked to verify my claim and most are from @[email protected] iirc and you can just block that account to stop seeing all the automated posts from reddit
It depends on the content.
Some of content really depends on OP being in the comments, like AmITheAsshole. Just reposting doesn’t give the kind of interaction that the original post would have.
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That was my initial thought. The bots are working overtime.
No doubt, it’s a chicken or egg problem.
Engage this! 🤜
Assimilate this! 🔫
Well the same page lists comments per day for the same period as 11,083,555. A ratio of 5.27 comments per post seems fine.
Yeah, a ratio means nothing if the bulk of the comments are only on a small portion of the posts. If 90% of the posts have 0 comments and the other 10% have 52.7 comments per post, that’s worth knowing.
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.
What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.
It does need that, but it also needs dedicated posters for small niche communities that keep posting into the void so that when someone eventually stumbles over they won’t go “aw it’s dead here, I guess Lemmy isn’t for me” but will actually find some content to engage with instead.
I only miss one or two subs, all other places I used to engage with are here and active. I would say there are less bots here.
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Unfortunately it seems that MAUs are steadily declining as well.
Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I’m a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂
Dead on. Sync being available makes using Lemmy much more appealing.
Moved from Jerboa to Sync. The level of customisability, attention to detail, polish, and especially performance in Sync has not been matched by any of the other apps I’ve tried so far.
The three things that really bothered me about Jerboa is the intermittent crashing when viewing comment threads, the lag when scrolling through dense comment threads, and the mis-clicks where it seemingly forgets what part of the screen I’m tapping on, and it seems more bugs are introduced each update. It was a great starting point, not so sure I’m going to miss it though.
On a separate note, I’m hoping the Sync dev finds a way to allow non-Play Store users to buy the ad removal in future
Precisely this. Sync was Reddit for me. Now, Sync is Lemmy for me.
Bingo. Just got Sync. Now it feels like home :D
Just waiting to save up for the ultra 👍👍
Sync is so good. It feels like the ‘good ol days’ of a few months ago haha.
That guy injects ads then asks you to pay to remove them.
He’s allowed to earn a living wage.
Ok
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good app still.
He gets money from ads, or he gets money from subscriptions. Wow it’s like he’s not even trying to work for free.
I mean it’s really just giving you a choice on how you want to support the dev. Either by having ads or paying for the application directly. If either of those are too much then head to another app. There are literally quite a few free apps available,which is fantastic, without ads. Free as in freedom to choose doesn’t mean though you should be a mooch and just take and not contribute anything back to the community that you’re a part of.
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
The thing I find with discussion on here is that although most threads have way fewer comments and especially top level comments, I’m way more likely to get a response and end up in some kind of discussion than on Reddit where most of the time you just get lost in a sea of comments. Also think comments tend to be more conversational, less memey, less aggressive etc, just generally nicer.
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man, I gotta admit I’m here solely because of Sync. no idea about the content yet, just enjoying the smooth ride of the app. (after the janky atrocity of the official reddit app. ;)
Same
haha :) hat tip!
I keep hearing good things about the Sync app and I’m just waiting here on iOS.
*Fixed typo thinks to things.
all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change
Why wait and not just start a community up?
Not OP, but for me, the main community I interact with reddit for exists, there’s just no activity there. It’s currently the off-season (the community is hockey), so I think there’s no point in trying to grow the community at this moment. Hopefully in the fall we can get some traffic.
The main posts on r/hockey are just links to Twitter, as all the news is posted there first. I think they may even have bots on Twitter that post all of the links. If in the fall we are still as barren as we are now, I might communicate with the mods and ask if that’s something that they would be open to if I’m willing to write the bot.
If you start posting, people will join in as they no longer feel the community is dead. Just takes people to make the first move. It’s a bit like starting a fire. A bit of work at first, but once alight, you can throw the occasional log on the fire.
Yeah, but again, I don’t think it’s worth trying right now during the off-season. r/hockey is just full of shit posts right now. So I’ll probably start posting as much as possible in the fall when the season starts up.
I get what you going to say but clapping with one hand just doesn’t work. I mainly go to soccer sub in Reddit and it’s easily over 20k people online at any given time. Here in soccer sub it’s only like 4k follower and daily active people of ~40people. No matter how hard I try to talk to it will be only to myself.
Same here. How many of these posts are in meme communities?
A few of my communities came over but the big one I’m missing is the college football sub with flairs and everything so I can discriminate against those of lesser teams.
The one here just isn’t the same.
Over half my feed is just low effort memes or auto posted arstechnica articles. Does this data include bot posts?
Half the posts are also just people specualting about activity on lemmy.
Also, there is approximately 50% of postings reserved for whinging about the speculation of activity on Lemmy.
That makes just about 100% then.
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Don’t forget all the updates about what’s going on at that other site.
I mean I’ve been posting Moldy Memes on the memes page. Mainly just to share my ancient saved stuff, and to help boost the meme page up with more posts. I do understand the frustration, but hopefully more, active users will come around.
I would assume so. But I see quite some organic content as well, with good interactions in the comment sections. I’m pretty happy. 90% of what was on reddit was of no interest to me as tends to be the case with any large content aggregator.
Yeah it’s quite a game of whack a mole to get rid of all those memes subs and their bot content… it’s actually worse than on reddit it seems.
My feed has zero memes (except those form [email protected] which obv do not qualify as “low effort”). I think unlike with Reddit, what you see if what you subscribe to. If you don’t like what you’re seeing, change your subscriptions. Not having Reddit force stuff into the feed is nice but it also means everyone is fully responsible for what they’re seeing.
I think unlike with Reddit, what you see if what you subscribe to.
This was also the case with Reddit, unless you intentionally went to /r/all? Or am I misunderstanding you? To clarify I always used RIF or went to old.reddit and was never force-fed any content from outside my subscriptions, when I stuck to the home-page.
If you don’t like what you’re seeing, change your subscriptions. Not having Reddit force stuff into the feed is nice but it also means everyone is fully responsible for what they’re seeing.
You make a good point, but I think here’s where the current downside of Lemmy comes in, discoverability between instances are pretty bothersome and not easily handled unless you again, go to your instance /all and check what other communities other people on the instance are subscribed to.
Unless you were using old.Reddit, there is a lot of inserted and suggested content now.
Half the posts since yesterday are people bitching about Sync ultra costing the same amount of money as a Costco hotdog combo once a month. 🙄
So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!
Could you please tell me where I could read more about the reddit situation having been stabilized?
Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!
Honestly thats all Lemmy needs. Just more content body. This software is already a really amazing drop in replacement for reddit. To be honest its easier to navigate the federation aspect with Lemmy than it is for other federated services like mastodon in my opinion.
I mean you’re right but you’re preaching to the choir here. I’m trying to convince people that wanna use reddit to come here instead. But even that is hard.
Yeah I do miss the activity on my frontpage on reddit. I find myself browsing all most of the time here when I don’t remember the last time I looked at /r/all on reddit. Sync and soon Boost coming out is going to be great in potentially bringing more people over.
I bit the bullet after I read there the Sync app was released. Now I’m lurking until I find the communities I love best… and it feels like they’re already starting to spring up. If I had the time to, I’d make and mod them myself.
Man, how are you guys keeping up with the servers and increase in traffic?
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Just registered here. Is there an app like rif but for lemmy?
I recommend Connect. Been using it for a few weeks and it’s only gotten better.
There’s half a dozen apps for lemmy, Jerboa is from the lemmy devs but some people prefer others, Voyager (formerly wefwef.app) is both a web app and just released their native version for android.
https://lemmy.world/post/2613340
This is my first post from Voyager native.
Voyager is so beautiful! I’m using it on Android and I really like it, even if it replicates the iOS experience
I’ve been using Jerboa until today. I tried both Connect and Sync, and Sync seems to fit my needs the best. Jerboa has been quite buggy for me, especially lately it’s been crashing a lot when trying to show more comments… And Connect was quite irritating when choosing what community to visit, the swipe to show the menu barely works for me. So Sync it is!
I use liftoff, was previous rif user. Tried few others and went back to liftoff, the search feature needs a bit polishing, but it appears that way with every other app.
Deinstalled sync and installed liftoff. Got similar minimalistic vibes I know from rif. Thanks.
you can make sync look a lot like rif
I am using sync for lemmy and the experience is quite smooth and magical.
I’ve installed it and some parts I really like, but what kind of crazy developer you have to be to show the responses to a comment above the comment itself.
Check: connect for lemmy, infinity for lemmy, voyager for lemmy, liftoff for lemmy
Use Sync
If you need an iOS app, try wefwef.app or Memmy. The former is a web app whereas the latter is a normal app in the app store.
Wefwef is now known as Voyager. It’s now also available on both iOS app store and Play Store.
Couldn’t find Voyager on the app store yet. Is it still in alpha?
In the meanwhile, the address is still wefwef.app even though the name changed recently to Voyager.
Voyager is on the play store as of today!
EDIT: Play store, not app store. It’s still in TestFlight.
That’s the play store, not the app store.
On iOS here, searching Voyager just brings up a bunch of crypto stuff and a couple travel apps.
Ah, sorry. I think it’s on testflight
Mlem is good too
It gets the job done, and at least it supports avatars unlike some other apps. However, Mlem still has many issues making it the worst Lemmy app I still have on my phone.
what issues?
- If you go to the inbox and tap a comment, you’re supposed to go to that comment, right. Most apps do that just fine even if it’s a long thread, but mlem just kinda throws you in there somewhere and you’re left to figure out where that one new comment actaully is.
- Once you’ve read that comment, you go back to the inbox and that old message is supposed to go away while the unread ones will remain. With most apps this works reasonably well, but with Mlem it’s a bit random.
- If you find an interesting post with a picture, you might want to zoom into it. With all the other apps you can do that, but Mlem doesn’t have zooming yet.
- What if you wrote a hasty comment and you realize there’s a typo or a factual mistake. With all the other apps you can just edit that comment, but Mlem doesn’t have the editing feature.
- Have you ever wondered how many downvotes a comment or a post has received? With some apps you can actually see that, but Mlem isn’t one of them.
- Usually on Lemmy you’ll find links to interesting articles, but once you click them you might want to use a very specific browser such as Firefox Focus or something. With most Lemmy apps you don’t even have that option, and Mlem is in that crowd.
Other than those points, Melem is a solid Lemmy app, and I’ll be keeping an eye on its development.
It’s called Voyager now. But yes best Lemmy client, basically a Apollo clone
I’m sure he will be gone after their IPO. He’s the current Ellen Pao. He’s solely taking the blame for making all of the unpopular decisions that they decided as a group that they need to make to have a successful IPO. After the IPO they “fire” him with a wink, nudge, and a massive severance package. Soulless investors are happy (temporarily). Spez is happy. And slowly over years, Reddit’s growth declines as the product continues to get worse, so they keep squeezing more and more money out of the people too stubborn to leave.
More posts like this. Data is beautiful
If RiF ports their app to Lemmy, have it as nearly functionally as it was on Reddit as possible while accommodating the ways lemmy is different, I think it would be a winner.
Are there any plans of doing that, though? I’m a lifelong RIF user and would love for it to work on here 🥺
I’d love for RiF to be ported to Lemmy. I’m using Sync now but I don’t feel it’s as good as RiF was to me.
Boost is coming. Did you try Liftoff or Connect? They can be good Rif alternatives
I’m testing Sync and Connect. I’ve just installed Liftoff, will see if I like it but it seems promising. I’ll try Boost once available as I’ve heard good things about its Reddit version.
And a hearty F.U. to reddit
This is surprising. Hopefully organic driven growth instead of bullshit statistics like threads and their stupidity.
I think a fair few may be reddit refugees.
