• Ilikecheese@lemm.eeEnglish
    846·
    1 year ago

    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.worldEnglish
      613·
      1 year ago

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

      • GenericJeebus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Keep it up. I wish people would bring themself to comment so they count as active users.

        • Four_lights77@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • nieceandtows@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          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

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Cthuwu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ultimate_question@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The problem is that without an effective way to ID bot content in this count then stats like this could covering up the real trends in human users, particularly in any stat that purports to measure all lemmy instances since we already know there are instances out there filled with thousands of bot users

    • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Ilikecheese@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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 here. Usually gets replies.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Okay. I’m going to be stupid and ask the basic question

          I’m on lemm.ee and my feed is interesting enough so if I fuck with it I could make it worse.

          But let’s say I want to see more of https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy (or something smaller) on my feed how do I do that?

          I was going to wait for an app and go from there. But I’m not sure which one has swam to the top of most recommended (I used rif on Reddit and enjoyed that)

          Edit: I’m going to try sync. I’ll work it out from that

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s a really useful site.

          I’m not sure why it’s showing such a small number when I search for it using my instance. e.g. searching for “games” shows [email protected] has 83 subscribers, while your link shows 19,400. Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there, or some number when it was first found by my instance or what?

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there

            Yes, that’s exactly it. It’s an unfortunate product of how the backend works right now, as far as I understand it. I don’t think there is a way to see the total sum of subscribers to a community from all instances right now. I think the issue has been raised on GitHub, though.

    • Tudou@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is my experience with Lemmy so far: it has replaced the “all” experience for me, but all my hobby / interests subs are completely dead.

      • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s ok though, because that’s how Reddit started too. They didn’t add subreddits from the start. So as long as it is providing an /all experience then I don’t see why it shouldn’t grow from there.

    • bill_buttlicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      What are some of those communities you’re in for cars and tinkering? I was subscribed to both of those topics on reddit and am looking to join. I think there are probably lots like me who are here but not quite up and running.

    • pseudonym@monyet.ccEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think the biggest problem with bootstrapping niche communities is that people interested in those topics have to search for and find the communities. There are a few resources for finding new communities such as https://lemmyverse.net/communities and the Reddit migration community, but it takes some effort.

    • raptir@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think part of it is a discovery problem. Which, I know, I don’t want some algorithm telling me what content to look at, but it’s tough to find all the stuff I’m interested in just by searching.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

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

  • MrHindsight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    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! 👍

  • slumberlust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

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

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Myro@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Trying to prune and maintain the All feed is a huge task at the moment, especially since some content might be the type of stuff you want to see sometimes, so just blocking News or Memes isn’t a perfect solution.

      Having Tags for posts for easier filtering would be great, but right now sticking to a carefully selected subscribed feed has been easier, for me at least.

      There are some apps - like Connect and Sync - that allow filtering keywords, domains and entire instances, should you want to try to control your All feed.

    • FlaccidJim@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Baba_booey1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I’m a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂

  • raker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!

  • Squander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I know a lot of communities are trying to get more popular by using bots to post relevant content. And generally they do a great job, its like an aggregator inside an aggregator. woa dude. Post engagement might be a better metric, but this graph is visually more impressive.

    • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m not really enjoying the communities that use bots to create posts, considering I have to follow multiple variations of the community subject matter just in case. The engagement is definitely more important to me and what I’m missing most from reddit. It’s building up though.

      The only place where I wish there was a repost bot is the BestofUpdates community (can’t remember the name). I crave those stories and don’t care if it isn’t a human porting them over to Lemmy

      • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, honestly i just turned it off to see the bots posts…at least for now its too spammy imo