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    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…

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

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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.

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      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.

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        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

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      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.

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        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.

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      What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.

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        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.

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    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.

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        It’s kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.

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        I posted, I’m gonna do more,I just don’t have that much important content to create unfortunately.

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          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.

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        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

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        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.

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    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

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    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! 👍

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        Thank you!

        I’m currently using “Connect for Lemmy”. Is this what most here might recommend for Android?

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          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.

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          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.

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          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

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          I really love it! Works better than jerboa on my side.

          But waiting for “boost for lemmy” and I’ll see then

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          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.

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    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.

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    all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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!

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

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    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.

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      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.

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    So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!

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      Could you please tell me where I could read more about the reddit situation having been stabilized?

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    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.

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      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

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