The web app wefwef.app is actually a really great alternative to apollo for lemmy! I'm using it right now on android, and while it does feel weird with the ui differences it has gestures and the same interface and generally feels really good.

[–] frankyboi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

thank you . I like it.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah once the first hits we're gonna see a huge spike in users. The growth right now is just from people who deleted their accounts in protest on the 12th.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I stopped "protesting" once it was obvious that reddint doesn't care. I'll obviously stop using the site once they cut me off though.

[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Most never stopped using reddit, but rather used reddit in unsavory ways. Goating all the new rules from blasphemy to nsfw to indefinitely private has had a lot of effect. I mean InterestingAsFuck still has no mods after the admins axed the whole sub. They're not ready for modless chaos. We won't see them double back until possible August, then it'll be too late and the folks will not want to come back. That's my prediction.

[–] CodeMonkeyDance@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

First post, post-Reddit 🥴

[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Welcome!

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

WE LIVE BABY

[–] HoagieBoy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm enjoying sitting here with popcorn and watching Reddit burn. It's like viewing someone destroy their company in real-time.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Daily active users is a much more reliable statistic due to bots

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Yup, came here to say that as well. it's al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

And I've been seeing some...odd looking.... comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

[–] hschen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

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[–] realbaconator@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I'm liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.

[–] HoagieBoy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It'll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let's enjoy the ride.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there's utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they'll only use one.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

True, I have 9 accounts so far between instances... I don't think I'll make anymore I'm quite comfortable now, but yeah, I inflated the stats. Sorry..

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

True. I've created at least 4, myself.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People love vanity metrics, though.

[–] hemmes@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago

Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.

[–] SilenceInTheVoid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Apollo user coming over from Reddit

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 3 points 2 years ago

There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!

Active daily user count is about 50k.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Let's GO!

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How much is bots tho

[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My spez comic got over 1.5mil views advertising Lemmy yesterday and at least #12 on r/all so I'm hopeful they're not all bots too :P

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[–] caephi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

i've only been on the platform for a few days but i've noticed a decent uptick in content and unique posts. probably still a lot of bots but with a decent surge of users and people getting a handle on the platform there's been a good bit of activity.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Meaningless metric (mostly bots, we all know that) but active user numbers are also up.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Huzzah!

And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.

Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.

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[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can't wait to see how all of this evolves.

[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Me too Mr. Darth Bueller

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[–] d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’m enjoying it so much more with the app development. Devs trying to accomplish the goal of instilling the feeling of Apollo for us refugees coming. I just needed useful communities, with posts that people reply to with more and more information. Reddit still defeats lemmy there but I’m hoping it changes a bit.

[–] MakuNagetto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

+1, just joined the party.

[–] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

[–] JeffCraig@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yeah this is a good point.

It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.

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[–] spicyfood77@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow

[–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Are any of these accounts bots?

Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

Are they all bots?

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[–] LDClaudius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Man, so much has changed. Glad I made the switch to Lemmy.

[–] ekZeno@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

[–] Axurite@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Even the bots migrated from Reddit.

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