Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.
Agreed. It’s really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we’ll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.
The small niche communities are pretty much dead, sadly. But there for sure is hope!
It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.
For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.
Fuck you Spez, most may be bots right now but those bad boys will eventually become real users.
Tons upon tons of spam accounts on spam instances:
And some, I assume, are real users.
If you want to see stats of real instances, the “All lemmy nodes” table on this page actually lists the real non-bot instances at the top: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
I joined in the last few days. Seems like this site has much better content. Less bots and reposts. Plus, the user base seems a lot more intelligent in general at this point.
hello I’m actually really dumb
If you acknowledge it, you’re already smarter than the majority of the Reddit user base
Another dummy reporting in.
o7
HOLD DIAMOND HANDS
This is my first post on Lemmy and I just want to say that I’m so happy to be here guys. Finally my dream of seeing a decentralized social media platform gaining unprecedented traction is coming true.
This has been a dream of mine as well! I kept saying “why hasn’t someone created a better social media platform, especially an anonymous one like Reddit?” I didn’t know Lemmy existed until I went to post a negative review for Reddit and saw it plugged in someone else’s negative review for Reddit. I’m so happy it exists!
I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.
Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.
July 1st is going to be interesting.
This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.
I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.
And obligatory fuck spez
Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.
And yes, fuck Spez
Just arrived here, does anyone know how to change the interface language? It presumed I wanted the language from my region, but I prefer English.
Click on your profile, and go to settings. Then change interface language to English. But this seems like the wrong kind of thread for posting support questions.
Unfortunately most of the communities I’m interested in are ghost towns
The best way to solve that is post some links and get the ball rolling. Can’t get engagement without something to engage with. (I am guilty of not posting links myself lol)
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Sadly those are bots, real amount of users is around 150k. Source: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547
Apparently a lot of those bots are just farming reddit and reposting here. Which I think in the short term is a good thing. People are more likely to join/stay if they see content. On the other I hope lemmy has the tools to prevent bot content from overwhelming user generated posts to the point that it loses the authenticity.
That’s an interesting take, but I could definitely see it working out. As long as the reposted content isn’t ads or spam, it could help the fediverse have content while it grows.
We know nothing. We say nothing.
I would love to have a bot/a few scripts to migrate a lot of the useful posts that were on reddit over here for a few of my hobby communities instead of having to move them manually. I can definitely see a lot of use cases for those.
I don’t see the proof in that link, although maybe I’m missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.
before lemmy blew up the count was 150k but many joined in the last few days. sure many are boys but until an effective way to filter them out is there we can’t know the precise numbers.
I don’t understand. Are you claiming that the first 150k users that signed up are all real and that since the rate of growth has increased exponentially that it couldn’t possibly be real users signing up? I don’t dispute that some of it is bots for sure. There are clearly places that have 20k users and 2 posts and stuff like that that are very suspicious. But I don’t think it’s at all reasonable to assert that all of the growth that has occurred are bots. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that. In fact, I would argue that the amount of activity (posts and comments) increasing alongside the user count is evidence to the contrary. I understand that bots can make posts too, but apart from the obviously labelled bots that are reposting content from reddit and stuff like that, I haven’t seen any bot spam accounts posting links to suspicious sites or anything like that at all. Unless you’re claiming that the bots are posting normal looking comments so that people think they are human? I don’t understand.
Lets fucking go. Fuck you spez.
AND MY AXE!
Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.
something something undertaker mankind cage something.
/shrugs. I got my old username. I’m happy.
Not https, your account will never be secure
