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.
Only if the content is organic. Look at !photoshopbattles@lemmy.world . 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.
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.
You’re doing it right. That’s exactly how to build momentum! 💪
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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.
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.
The problem is that without an effective way to ID bot content then stats like this could be 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
“Nayyyyyy.”
“Oh boy the line went up that must mean I’m on the winning team!”
Are you saying you need outside support for your decisions?
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.
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.
Engage this! 🤜
Unfortunately it seems that MAUs are steadily declining as well.
All I’m missing is the more niche communities to grow. It’s good to see lots of memes and engagement but a man needs more.
Be the more you want to see
It’s kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.
Gotta start somewhere. Yell into the void! Maybe there are some ears you didn’t see.
Share posts you like from reddit from time to time. Ultimately, people will start to talk.
Whatchu wanna talk about, friend? Let’s get niche-y!
I posted, I’m gonna do more,I just don’t have that much important content to create unfortunately.
If I have a question that I’d usually search on reddit for, i just make a post here instead and drum up content for the future, plus I usually get way more than I asked for from people as almost everyone here is a damn genius and usually very polite and understanding.
How do you create communities?
Go to your instance homepage, lemmy.ml then in the sidebar there should be a create community button, or if on mobile it may be hidden in the … menu button
Go to your instance homepage, lemmy.ml then in the sidebar there should be a create community button, or if on mobile it may be hidden in the … menu button
edit: accidentally deleted this comment so just reposting.
Not just communities, but niche instances. Having everyone on just a few instances isn’t good.
I would like to thank everyone on here for the last two months or whatever it’s been from the start of the migration, and to the people just coming over, and those who were here already. I actually feel like I’ve grown as an individual in my time here. I’m starting to see certain patterns in my own behavior and working on them thanks to the content and the engaging discussions on here. I used to avoid interaction and lost all hope, but you are all really awesome. Thank you <3
Live long and prosper homie.
So say we all
🖖
You’re welcome
Everyone is much nicer here from what I’ve seen
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! 👍
Welcome home!
Literally, the more the merrier.Thank you!
I’m currently using “Connect for Lemmy”. Is this what most here might recommend for Android?
Sync and boost!!!
Best OG’s with good ux/ui from reddit.
I personally used Connect for a long time (currently trialing Sync) and honestly it’s a fine client for Lemmy. The really nice thing is that there are so many apps, you can start a Hunger Games out of them and narrow down to the one you like the most. That’s how I got to Connect after starting with all of the maintained Android apps a month ago.
Use the app that works for you. That’s why many of us are here, because Reddit took away that option to push their shit tier official app that’s far inferior to literally every third party app I ever tried.
I am quite happy on Voyager
It really depends on your taste, you can download and try the suggestions and see which you like the most.
That being said my favourite is Voyager (wefwef.app), I have a Linux phone and need something that runs in the browser and it works great. It resembles Apollo so will also be good for iOS users who miss it
I really love it! Works better than jerboa on my side.
But waiting for “boost for lemmy” and I’ll see then
While the whole app developing situation gets going - I’m on the iPad - I’m okay using a web browser, either Firefox or Brave, with this link:
https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/allMy top 2 are Voyager and Connect.
I landed on Connect before now trialling Sync (which I’m liking the best so far). I went through and tested them all before sticking to one, and that’s honestly just the best approach (if you have the time). They all have upsides and downsides, but ultimately it comes down to personal preference, particularly since aesthetic taste is so varied and subjective.
For example, some people love the iOS look of Voyager, some vehemently hate it.
Welcome
Welcome you guys, I ditched Reddit and made this happen.
Thanks!
Thank you prolific poster person
Thank you for your service.
🚀 more posters less lurkers!
I’m doing my part!
Right now my modus operandi is to post once in each community I see that I can provide anything for.
185 comments are mine! :)
And 7 posts…
To the moon!
Also think about how many more lurkers there are. There are many more lurkers than people making posts and comments.
A truly embarrassing amount of comments are mine.
Well can’t blame you. Lemmy is fun :)
Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!
Ditto! Back to hiding in the dark…
Same!
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?
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.
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.
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.
Same here. How many of these posts are in meme communities?
I’m new to Lemmy and I am using Sync for Lemmy but so far none of my comments are showing up. I’m attempting to comment from my browser this time and I hope it works.
Edit: my comments seem to be showing in browser but not via Sync for Lemmy. Can someone recommend different Lemmy app?
Edit: you guys are great, I uninstalled and restarted and now my comments are showing up along with all your replies that just popped up at once!
You can 100% comment from Sync.
Source: This comment.
I use Jerboa. It does crash for me on ocassion though.
Jebora is aight, but lacks polish. I don’t think yo ucan comment from sync yet… I got a “feature coming soon” or something when I did. I think this might also work on infinity for lemmy.
Edit: You can’t post links to communities with sync yet
I don’t know why people like you and me initially think it’s spelled “Jeb-ora” when it’s actually “Jer-boa”
lol I’ve been calling it Jer-oba. I don’t know how I got here, I can’t even read. 😮💨
Come on my illiterate friends let’s have some fun with jemboria!
Jerm
Haha 🤣 same
Did you know the Jerboa is the same creature that Muaddib is named after? Qul-wahad!
😂 my bad… It’s a weird name
Just commented this from sync
What he obviously meant, but phrased incorrectly: you can’t create new posts from Sync. You should be able to comment on existing posts, though (doing it right now)
Edited my parent comment
Connect would be my recommendation, surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned here. It works well, and is pretty close to what the Reddit apps felt like
No issues with sync. Using right now
I’m trying Sync right now and it works ok for me. I find Connect and Voyager the best Lemmy apps right now.
Jeroba 🐁
Sync is generally working for me, but I find it depends on server. Lemmy.world seems to withhold my posts.
I was having the same issues you are with posts being seen on browser side but I couldn’t see my posts in either connect or sync.
They showed up later on tho and people were voting and responding to them in meantime. So I think it’s probably just a server or api issue and not app related since for me at least the issue was consistent across apps
Voyager is exactly like Apollo for reddit.
My comments are appearing, but I usually have to refresh the post. I hope it’s something that jldawson can fix on the app’s side.
I also cant comment from sync. It shows error.
Liftoff probably looks most similar to Sync
Testing
Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!
Thanks, spez / Steve Huffman. Now do us all a favor and fire yourself. It would probably drive that traffic back down slightly, but we could live with it.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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?
Stonks!
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.
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
Yeah, honestly i just turned it off to see the bots posts…at least for now its too spammy imo
