Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
It’s not only because of Sync alot of other FOSS apps were released or got an update around the same time.
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How can you tell? I can imagine that sync would have actually done much of this
I am a very active commenter on reddit, and right now, sync for lemmy hust feels like reddit because it’s pretty much the same. I couldn’t really tell you, but it would make sense that many people now have a design they were accustomed to before.
But if this increase was mostly from sync, that would mean that an average sync user would have had to comment 100-200 comments every day since then, because it has just 10k downloads on google play, which probably is the major source for most of those, so you might be right
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You sure? The graph says per day, and there are parts where it decreases. I would expect a total to always increase, unless there are comment purges going on.
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It is possible that a significant amount is spam or something else, but I do find myself using Lemmy much more now that Sync is available.
Yup. And most of the new comments are about these apps for Lemmy 😂
I’m gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.
So, should we thank them?
What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?
I just don’t get the love for Sync. It was the best reddit app on Android like 10 years ago, but so many other apps surpassed it a while ago. Boost was smoother and had more options. As for iOS, Alien Blue and then Apollo were much better.
With lemmy, you’ve got great apps like memmy and Thunder that are imo better than Sync.
So you’re dealing with ads (or paying for closed source software) just to use a worse product that kinda goes against the FOSS philosophy Lemmy is built on.
Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion. I think it’s fair to say that most people here in the official sync community are going to disagree with you about it being a bad app. As for the FOSS philosophy, I genuinely don’t give a fuck. Cool that there are lots of FOSS alternatives but I like LJ and sync and have no issues supporting him. Nice that there are lots of options for different people.
I never said it was bad.
I just don’t get why people would use it over alternatives that have more features, are more stable, are free, and don’t include ads…
Completely agree, Thunder is SO much better and completely ad free.
Lol
Still better to have all the discourse on Lemmy instead of Reddit :).
lol. 3m comments, sync users and sync haters. Probably right.
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Impressive! Honestly I can totally understand this growth myself because it mirrors very well my own interactions here. When third party apps died I came here, tried a bunch of apps, made a bunch of comments and then didn’t really stick around because I couldn’t find a good enough app I liked.
Then when Sync released I have barely touched reddit and been 95% on Lemmy again.
I am still very impressed if Sync alone is responsible for 4 million additional comments per day though. That is rather staggering if it’s true.
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Good point. I’m unsure on the exact dates/times/timezones involved but it does sort of look like there was a good increase in comments maybe a day or so before Sync release. If that is not Sync though I’m struggling to think what else would cause it…
I think a couple apps restarted on Lemmy around the same time Sync came out. I know boost showed up, and I’ve seen a bunch of newly released app announcement threads in the last week.
Probably a combination of new and better apps. I know I basically just lurked until sync came out. It just feels familiar, and all the features I want are just here. The only thing I think I want, is to see how many down votes are on posts, but it’s literally the only thing I can think of.
Mastodon has 2M active users and has been steady for quite a while now. Fediverse is growing, maturing. Also Lemmy is trying to compete with Reddit, and Mastodon is trying to compete wuth Twitter. Lemmy and Mastodon are not actually competing with each other.
An interesting tidbit: apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform. It’s a bit buggy though, and while you can ping people and they can comment here, it doesn’t really work the same way on the other side.
At least there’s a remindme bot via mastodon.
apparently there’s meshing between the two fediverse projects, given that they use the same platform.
What are you referring to exactly? Sounds a bit like kbin but I get the sense that’s not what you’re talking about.
You can tag mastodon users on here, and they can follow us and reply when you create a post (either comment or post)
Mastodon users can also create posts on Lemmy communities by tagging the community itself with an @.
In my case I was using a 3rd party app that was only barred from signing in to reddit, but I was still able to read and navigate the website until a few days ago. Now it seems that they have cut that access off so that drove me to create an account here.
I think it’s a good sign people are sticking around. A lot of people joined mastodon and instantly left because it was too much to figure out how to use. Lemmy is a lot better in its current state than where mastodon was during the first mass migrations.
Totally agree joined Lemmy today and it feels just like Reddit with a few extra steps but oh well. Mastodon is it’s own beast to tackle
I also think mastadon was trying to replace Facebook and twitter. A generalized assumption of those users is a lack of technical familiarity. Lemmy is the reddit alternative, and the users there tend to be way more technically proficient, or at least willing to learn.
I’ve never cared about Twitter so I guess it makes sence that I don’t care about mastodon, lemmy on the other hand is a lot of fun
Also there’s less friction to picking an instance. I’m not so worried about losing an anonymous account so I’ve made several on multiple instances
Do you know whether the same chart (or raw data?!?) exists but minus say purged instances? Is that even possible?
Not sure how useful it is, but you can choose various colums and get some further information here:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Interestingly there is some definite fuckery going on with the stats - one server has 80 users and 1.2 million comments. So this whole thread is probably rather pointless when stuff like that exists lol.
Thanks, that’s awesome!
Sync definitely has me commenting more personally
Here’s to posting from Sync being available soon. Still have to go to other lemmy apps to post.
Eh, not for me. Not for me.
Sent from Sync
That’s interesting, I’ve been waiting for sync since the reddit shutdown but in the mean time I’ve just fallen in love with Jerboa, I paid for the sync subscription but I’m still using Jerboa instead, the only feature I’m missing is direct share on pictures and videos
I like Jerboa and I was happy using it until Sync arrived. Still, there’s just nothing even close to the Sync experience for me.
yeah me too, it’s easier than the other apps
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Sync is made by one guy. Not a company.
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Yes it’s one person, the LTD is likely for tax purposes but it’s just him, no employees.
Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad
Just call it Twitter like everyone else lol.
A. It’s more convenient and clear. B. It will probably piss off Musk.
Now B is a cause I can get behind…
I like the “corporations don’t get to have deadnames” take
And nary a hint of the Official Reddit app in that screenshot. What could’ve possibly happened??? Ya just hate to see it, or not see it I guess
It’s currently #10 in the Google Play store, under the “social” category. (First is TikTok.)
The odd thing is, their screenshot is on the play store as well, you can see the logo next to installed apps. However, when I check on my phone, it matches yours.
Like @skye pointed out, I suspect it might indeed be based on region. I remember another thread where a user reported seeing Sync rated at 3 stars, whereas others reported 5 stars.
Ratings on play store are indeed localized (by region) but also by device type so it ensure that the ratings is relevant to your device (as the app experience can be extremely different on different devices running different Android version and/or Roms)
It also shows only ratings from the last of few last released versions in order to no skew the results with old versions of the app
Might be region dependent?
It doesn’t even show up in that list for me. Reddit shows up after top 50. I guess the list is made based on your geographic location as well.
Depends on your region. I’m in Canada and it’s 6th here.
Wow that’s impressive.
I’m contributing
Same bro, here’s a useless Kbin upvote that most peple can’t even see.
Thank you for the upvote helps over turn the - I have from some angry Germans lol
Mastodon used to be my main social media platform for some time and I have been slowly getting on Lemmy. But I have been using it a lot after the launch of sync.
Some people seem to be interpreting this to mean 11 million comments per day. I think it means the numbers are updated daily.
The numbers also don’t make a lot of sense to me. Front page of lemmy.world says 620,000 (local origin) comments. And Lemmy sequentially numbers the comments for an instance, mixing both local and federated and the recent numbers look like 2,122,067. Lemmy.ml says 253,000 on the front page, and their index key is showing 2,321,959 for a comment made today. I have to imagine that these two servers are subscribed to a lot of stuff (including each other). I’d be surprised if there were more than 4 million unique comments in Lemmy. And there would be some kbin messages in the Lemmy.world index.
Hmm, yeah I see what you are saying. I mean you’re right that would be an insane number of comments wouldn’t it.
I wonder then where that figure is from and why it jumped so much?
Probably the sum of local origin comments on the federated instances.
Should be possible to make a per day graph by graphing the diff per day.
I don’t think it’s sync, I remember seeing this jump a few days before sync launched. Seems like it’s something else. I would bet it’s bots, but there is no evidence for this I’m aware of.
Lemmy has become my main social media app already. Mastodon is painful to use for me. I just don’t like the Twitter format, and the lack of algo is unbearable.
Yeah honestly completely the same here, I had no clue how to actually find anything, and I far prefer engaging with communities, not people
And Mastodon has no top sorting or anything, is it was kinda useless to me
Never enjoyed the twitter style. But following hashtags and not people, made the content much more interesting atleast.
From the website (not the app) search a hashtag, select it and click follow.Use Moshidon or Megalodon. It adds those features that already exist on the website. Why the Mastodon app doesn’t have it is beyond me.
Lol yeah I agree with Mastodon. I checked it out and it’s like…yep looks like Twitter, and I fucking hate Twitter, just feels like some weird celebrity and brand worship platform. The focus on Lemmy/Reddit at least is the content, and nobody really cares who posted or created it for the most part. Everyone is equal and content speaks for itself, it’s a far nicer concept to me.
Completely agree, I hate how it’s user worship centric like that.
By algo you meant algorithm? If that’s it then you can follow hashtags and you’ll have your feed more interesting for yourself with no algorithm involved.
I never used Twitter, but I am enjoying Mastodon a lot now that I follow my own stuff :)
Following hashtags isn’t remotely the same as having a for you algorithm. There’s nothing comparable to it on Mastodon right now. That is the whole point of what I was saying.
And probably never will, as I said I hardly used Twitter so I guess I never “tuned” my algorithm.
Well you didn’t miss out on much lol
When you follow hashtags you get all random useless tweets about that topic, here in Lemmy the upvote downvote, comment activity based algorithm is much better in filtering spam and junk
Yes, I am not saying Mastodon is better than Lemmy in that regard, but it is something at least, and you get an idea of what people to follow to boost your feed anyway.
I have seen some interesting things there that I don’t see on Lemmy, mainly speaking of some not that popular gaming or handhelds, but maybe this is an effect of a higher user base there than here.
This is me. I don’t know why I thought Mastodon would click for me when Twitter never did. I can’t bring myself to yell into the void. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong, idk. Much happier here.
I feel the same, I stopped using Twitter in 2010 when I realized I was neither funny nor popular and nobody cared about what I had for breakfast or how far I ran. Gave mastadon a try recently because I am interested in Fediverse but the feeling is same
Yeah definitely a different kind of social media. I come on here to browse the trending content and see what other people are saying about it. It’s content focused, rather then Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post and gets easily buried among low effort posts.
Mastodon where it’s focused on a person’s single post
This is a good observation, it means that kind of social media (twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) is much more egotistical and self-aggrandizing,which in turn explains why people like Musk and Trump are so enamoured with the format.
Thanks for putting down my vague impression into clear words. I couldn’t agree more!
Even I kinda find it very hard to find good content on Mastodon.
It’s just a plain timeline which I’m not sure I like atm.
11 million comments per day? Am I the only one surprised by that?
That’s 5 times more than Reddit in 2015: https://www.quora.com/How-many-comments-are-made-on-reddit-each-day.
Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy
Same. And I started commenting in Sync since I kept getting errors when trying it in Jerboa.
It doesn’t work on Sync either. We don’t see your comments.
I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.
You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.
Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!
+1 from Infinity
