• joneskind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Numbers of posts, active servers and daily users have a mostly linear increase day to day but comments hence engagement have skyrocketed. It makes me think it’s mostly not bots

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I don’t doubt there’s tons of bots, but regular people are coming as well to the degree that this platform is really beginning to feel alive.

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        1 year ago

        I read WAY more than I comment, and comment way more than I post. I imagine there’s a lot of people like me who are here, but are on the quiet side.

    • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I also imagine comments increase exponentially once a critical mass of people have joined. Hard to comment without other people to talk to.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of bots for soe but this comm alone blew up to 3x the users in 2 days, and people make lots of OCs… So not just bots

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      1 year ago

      Yeah my guess as well. The Reddit blackouts have been going for quite a while, and the 3rd party apps are still going. There’s no reason why we would suddenly grow 300K in a day

      • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I personally was able to go a week without reddit and just be a normal person. The need for a replacement grew. And lemmy has been picking up enough thy I feel like I can come here whenever I pick up my phone and have a decent chance of getting content for my dumb chronicly content addicted brain.

        So yeah. Probably a bunch of other people doing the same. I finally created an account yesterday after a bunch of days lurking.

      • Moohamin12@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Half and half.

        Also, growth is exponential.

        Its when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

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          1 year ago

          Half and half.

          Also, growth is exponential.

          Its when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

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            Half and half.

            Also, growth is exponential.

            It’s when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

  • Bloodaxe@fosstodon.org
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    @WhoRoger Let’s not forget the fact that Lemmy and Kbin are both connected to the broader Fediverse, thanks to the AcitivityPub protocol! In other words, might be 1 mill Lemmy-accounts, but many more mill potential users that could interact with the content even without Lemmy or Kbin! 😄