• 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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        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.

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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

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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.

          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.

            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! 😄

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    TBF that’s accounts across Lemmy, but still, the single instance Lemmy.world has been growing like crazy. It’s gonna be wild watching this place grow over the next few months and years.