Daily Lemmy comments up from ~7m to ~11m following the launch of Sync?
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.
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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?
I used Sync for Reddit for about 10 years but with the switch to the Fediverse I've adopted more of a FOSS mindset.
My initial reaction was vitriolic for no other reason than being disappointed due to my own expectations. I'm sure it's still a great app and I still absolutely appreciate and respect lj; it's just not for me anymore. But that doesn't give me the right to force my opinion on others.
Ultimately I'm just happy we're growing and I believe that's what we should be focussing on.
What do you mean there are advertisements in my free app?
lol. 3m comments, sync users and sync haters. Probably right.
Still better to have all the discourse on Lemmy instead of Reddit :).
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.
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
It's currently #10 in the Google Play store, under the "social" category. (First is TikTok.)
Depends on your region. I'm in Canada and it's 6th here.
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.
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
Wow that's impressive.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.
Sync was Reddit for me. So when Reddit decided to end all 3rd party apps, it was also the end of Reddit for me. Now with Sync for Lemmy it feels like I can pick off exactly where I left off and it feels great. Maybe even slightly better, because it feels like more people are interested in the comments you write and more of them interact with you.
Same except for Apollo on iOS.
Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread
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I felt anger reading this. I think I just scrolled past it on reddit but lord almighty is it annoying
Can't tell if this is ironic satire
This
If I never see another goddamn unzip in my life I will die happy lmao
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And like someone posted about we're not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn't post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.
Let's just hope everyone stays understanding and able to keep minor differences unfought. I hope the option of defederation helps in that regard.
I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.
I just made an account to reply to this lol. I finally bit the bullet and started using Lemmy a few days ago, the community here is of course much smaller than reddit but I would describe the comments here as being like the 1 in 10 comments on reddit that actually made me want to keep using the site. You don't see as many one word throw away pun comments here, which I'm not necessarily against but it gets very grating over time.
I just downloaded relay yesterday, I was always a RIF user but using relay in "sure drawer" mode is a pretty similar experience. Everyone here seems very chill and nice
Haha I meant to say Sync
This is my experience as well. I haven't found lemmy to be difficult to navigate on my computer, but on my phone it was a bit messy - but with sync back everything is as it was for me.
Same, long time SyncPro user here (10 years), I stopped using reddit in June, I spent all my July on lemmy with PWA, Jerboa, Connect, etc, there was so much problems in the beginning with crash, network errors, etc. it was a jungle, dozens of new instances per day, etc. It is all stable now, I used Jerboa the most. First day Sync for Lemmy was out I installed it, it was like I never left the old site, same layout, colours, functionalities, gesture, etc. Sync for Lemmy is a saviour for sure. I didn't want the subscribe, I bought the noads version the minute it was out.
Yep. It's like reddit never shat the bed and just spontaneously split into dozens of smaller sites.
Yeah, this.
I tried a bunch of apps when I moved over to Lemmy. Some were really good however Sync just felt like home. Instantly back to normal from a user experience perspective.
3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it's not FOSS.
Think a fair few comments on it's price is warranted considering it's 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)
25$ isn't for ultra though but just to remove the ads, ultra is more expensive still
What does Ultra get you?
No, no, no. You're not allowed to complain about a price hike from £2 to £19 even though the apps are basically the same in UX and concept and LJ was able to push out a semi functional beta in a matter of weeks. Because complaining about it makes you a 'baby' apparently and everyone should be willing to part with £19 without blinking, to buy an app to use a service that has barely gotten off the ground and nobody knows will be around in a year at this point. I understand people are excited, and people want to support LJ (I have, loads, over the years) but this community doesn't seem to even want a proper discourse about this and prefers to resort to shitty insults. Not sure that's the kind of community I can see myself growing into, personally. To me, that asking price is insanely greedy and a bit delusional considering there are other strong alternatives already popping up. I've been loyal to Sync for 10 years I think, but times are tough money is tight, and nobody knows if Lemmy is going to succeed yet. We need big numbers on this platform and keeping costs down would surely aid in that effort. But he must have done his calculations so I respect his decision. If he doesn't revert I'll have to look at the alternatives.
No one is forcing anyone to pay for it. The app works fine without paying a dime.
Maybe we wanna buy it. But in my country lifetime of Ultra is 117 dollars. 117.. dollars.. Sync for Reddit cost me 4. Yes 4. I'm not even going to calculate percentage increase.
Sync for reddit Ultra was not $4 for lifetime. Removal of ads may have been. In the US its $99 for ultimate lifetime. $20 for lifetime removal of ads. Also the developer has already said he's working on regional pricing.
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
Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where "Yay, Sync!" and the other 2 million were "REEE, Sync!"
5 were compliments on cute pets.
But were they cute?
It doesn't matter. Even ugly pets are cute.
Well, where are said pets?? You can't just say that without links.
Tho Genghis is the real kind of cute.
That's a damn cute dog right there!
Cute pet.
He's super sweet. He looks kinda homeless right now because I've been doing maintenance trims until I can get him into his groomer for a spa day.
My goodness, that face!
He manages to always look hungry and pathetic.
Same face, more dorito ear.
I love that we can see downvotes because next time someone is mean to me I'll just think 'you're probably the guy who downvoted that cute dog' and their opinion will mean nothing to me.
Yeah lot of talking about using sync vs foss. I think that giving people more options is good for lemmy as a whole at the end of the day.
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.
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 :)
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.
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
People only carewho posts stuff here when it's a joke. Like this one guy who had a Barbie avatar and called themselves Margot Robbie and was shitposting with movie memes.
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.
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.
Thanks for putting down my vague impression into clear words. I couldn't agree more!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I actually switched to sync too. But still think the prices are nuts and they need to come down for me to pay for it.
Would love to support the developer but definitely not at those prices. I block ads anyway, so I never see any.
Remember the instance owner too if you can :)
Too bad mine does not offer paypal...Too god damn many people assume all folks have a CC...
Most people do.
And the vast majority of those not using them are not valuable as customers.
How to block ads on sync?
I'm going back and forth still between Connect and Sync. Two reasons: can't post from Sync yet and 2) lots of failed to load image bugs in Sync (which oddly enough, preview works fine for those images that failed to load).
The second one might be related to lemmy.world being dosed. I don't get any issues (anymore) on feddit.de
No issues for me on my instance. Probably Lemmy.world rate limiting or something.
Waiting for the one time payment to get rid of ads. Paid it on reddit, will (probably) pay it on lemmy.
Wdym? There's currently two one time payments. Ultra lifetime removes ads and, shockingly, "Remove ads" also removes ads
The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is "promised". Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.
Same with promised DLCs and early access.
It's in v23.x currently. Not v0.23. Nor is it mentioned anywhere on the app store or in the app that it's still in beta and missing essential features.
It already exists. It's $20.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1677830
What features are promised exactly? As far as I can tell all the same features from the reddit app are here and working.
it's people arguing about whether or not they use sync
.. honestly tho I wouldn't be surprised, I'm using it a lot more now 🤷♂️
I would suspect it is another burst of Reddit users. I've just joined from Reddit because the third party app I used there (RiF) has stopped working this week. I can't have been the only one whose app had zombied along for a month, died and then left me googling for Reddit alternatives.
It was the same for me
I really do wish RIF dev would make a lemmy app version. I absolutely loved that app for over a decade.
Likewise. When RIF died, so did my reddit habit. Lemmy has filled the void nicely, and better every day
yeah I came here because RIF finally stopped working
you can make sync look A LOT like RIF. Now for Reddit may be good for you but fully switching to lemmy is better
Boost still works for me (I've created a subreddit to moderate)
All third party apps went offline AFAIK.
Welcome!
Once relay goes down more will come. I've been holding on using that.
I'm on lemmy significantly more since the sync launch. Both jerboa and liftoff were pretty half baked in comparison... Really hoping more people from Reddit will join
Same boat as you, used to encounter multiple bugs and crashes with Jerboa... Since switching to Sync I haven't encountered a single crash.
I really like how it auto translates links to comments on other instances and has lots of other small QoL features that show the dev really cares about the app.
Other users who are just choosing apps by how the UI looks and Lemmy's stock features have missed a lot of the things that make Sync stand out 🤷♂️ I've customised mine to resemble Infinity (the app I used for reddit) and I'm pretty damn satisfied rn with the gestures, performance and much longer battery life when browsing.
Are you aware Infinity is available for Lemmy now?
I just got here 2 days ago because of Sync. More will come.
Well the sole reason now my account exists and has so many replies is coz of sync.
Imagine when the dev adds the ability to post from the app
It still puzzles me why it was not added at release.
It is one of the most basic features for a social media app.
Because building features takes time, and sync is useful in it's current state. Why not release it?
You got me wrong, I am happy with the release of Sync. I am just puzzled by the missing basic feature.
Because it's not done yet?
It's a core capability, but it's a lot of work due to all the different types of thing you can post.
An app that can read posts and write comments is still useful without submitting posts, but an app that can submit posts but not read them is pretty useless. So, when you're making stuff you do reading posts first, then you do writing comments, then you do submitting posts. That makes sense, right?
Let's say it takes a few weeks to do each, and you've got to the stage where you've done reading and comments, but not submitting. That's useful already! You're not done, but what you've got is still useful for people and people want it, so why not release it at that point? Then carry on working and release the remaining features after.
Releasing as early as you can is good for everyone - the developer starts getting income for the work they're doing, they learn about bugs and issues earlier in the development process and we get to start using it sooner. For me Sync without submitting is still better than the other apps, so I want to use it.
I hop over into Jerboa to make posts, can imagine the other sync users have probably been getting by using whatever app they were using before.
It's probably a good thing though IMO, having a bunch of redditors storming in and making new threads about Sync could take over /all more than it has already
Not important. The amount of comments:posts is probably >10:1
So having comments being 10x as important than a post is kinda self explanatory.
But the sync app is still in beta so for 1.0 it will probably be done.
Still in beta but already wanting people to spend money to remove ads or get Ultra
The dev needs to eat. You're not forced to give him money, stop complaining.
I'm not saying the prices are too high or not justified. I just don't think you can excuse missing features by saying it's still in beta when at the same time full pricing is in place.
I'll be honest I didn't even notice it was missing until I read this thread, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it
Let's see what you would do if you want to make this a full time job and would want to buy groceries.
I give you ~6 months until your savings are burned through amd you decide that you need to charge a bit or open donations.
Yep can't wait! Has the dev given any ETA?
No, only "soon": https://lemmy.world/comment/1988014
It's not only because of Sync alot of other FOSS apps were released or got an update around the same time.
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
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.
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 using something called connect. I'm not sure why I picked this one but it works quite well. Is sync so much better? The hype around it is so impressive I feel I must be missing something.
It's a very emotional thing for many of us. I've beed using reddit on sync exclusively, I just couldn't be arsed to use the web version any more.
So when they killed third party apps, reddit was dead to me. Not only because of the terrible user experience of the web site and official app, but mostly because of the way they treated the developers after all those years.
After the lemmy version came out, I opened it up and everything was back to normal (except for the missing content).
I'm really hoping that the devs of other apps succeed in the transition as well and they manage to get a good portion of their users to join as well.
As for the FOSS fundamentalists: I really don't get it. I've worked on open source projects in the past, when I felt I could contribute. I don't get all the hate being directed towards sync though. You like your FOSS-app? Great! I prefer sync and I'm happy to support the author.
I used it for years on that other site, so when it came out for lemmy it felt like coming home. Not sure how much is just muscle memory and being used to it, but the design and interface are really well done.
Before Sync I settled on Connect, it's a really nice app. But Sync is a great app, one of the best implementations of Material I've used. And its UI is the result of years of work on the Reddit app, so it's got a lot more features and is already more polished than the others, despite being in beta.
Connect is perfectly fine. I just used sync for a long time and like some particular things about it (e.g., being able to jump from one comment tree to the next reliably and quickly).
Sync has a better ui and customization (in my opinion) and more functions ALTHOUGH at the moment posting and hiding posts doesn't work, so I don't know if I can recommend it at the moment
Sync has a lot more features. Direct imgur upload from commenting, live comment mode (if Lemmy ever gets big enough for game threads), open communities in new windows are some of my favorites.
Is that new? I'm on beta 26
Just tried it and it says "failed to upload image"lol so maybe it's not running yet. When you hit reply it's the image icon next to the folder icon
That one should work. It doesn't use Imgur though, it uploads to your home instance's pictrs.
Maybe it's a lemm.ee issue then? Still not working
Hmm looks like it. Works from my lemdro.id account but not from my lemm.ee account.
Edit: I've just checked, lemm.ee returns an error saying the image is too large when using the website as well. I think they've set it low to effectively disable image uploading (since it gave the same error with files under 1 MB).
Damn lol so I should be on a server that allows larger image sizes... That's annoying lol
I think some sports communities could sustain game threads here. The soccer community seems to have mostly stayed on Reddit, but Formula 1 definitely is active enough here for live threads for races.
A lot of the functionality isn't ready yet including submitting posts - but it's coming. Connect is currently more complete but Sync will get there soon.
Connect is actually heavily inspired by sync. Sync's nice, but maybe only a bit more polished then connec, otherwise the interface is very similar. When I tried sync the other day the search wasn't working, so I think I'll just stay with connect. Honestly, I never used sync for Reddit so when I tried it after hearing all the hype I was kinda let down. It's nice but it's in the same league as like 3 or 4 other apps imo (assuming they fixed search)
If it weren't for Sync I'd still be using Connect. Connect is, in my opinion, the 2nd best app for Lemmy right now.
On my side (writing from Sync) I was using Native A and basically using the web version of Lemmy, and when I clicked on a post it meant going all the way up and losing where I was in my feed, so I stop responding for a long time
Also, whenever I clicked on a post from the browser there was about 50/50 chance the comments would even load in the first place. Since Sync was released, it's like I'm back home on Reddit. The browser works perfectly. I can hide posts I've already read. I can open the comments. I can leave comments.
People might not like Sync because it's not FOSS or whatever but I don't care. I barely even notice the adds and don't give a shit about Google getting some of my analytics. I just wanna browse and forget my shitty existence.
Od day for now the level of adds Is correct, in not certain yet on which App I will end up only using, I am nor pro Sync not against, I simply want to use Lemmy and have a good time
Checks out tbh. Around 90% of the web's overall traffic is viewed from tablets and mobile devices. Having a good mobile/app experience is essential for user traffic - how many of us are on the web while in bed, on the toilet, eating breakfast, half-watching TV, on break at work, etc...?
I tried using Liftoff and Connect. For whatever reason they didn't recognize my login 99% of the time. So far Sync works well and actually allows me to comment.
Yeah, I feel right at home since I started using Sync. I also try to be more active to improve Lemmy in general. I wish I could create threads but the function is not working for me.
The Sync dev said we should have that ability within a week. I think he posted that comment two days ago.
Yeah will be nice when we can create posts. Its pretty easy on mobile web browser though the UI is clean enough for just that task in the meantime.
Sync definitely has me commenting more personally
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.
Here's to posting from Sync being available soon. Still have to go to other lemmy apps to post.
yeah me too, it's easier than the other apps
I would love to have the designer of RIF put their talents back in to making something that works out here free from the matrix.
They are working on an app for Tildes, another forum kind of website. It's called Three Cheers for Tildes! Currently in alpha on android, iOS currently under development.
To put it bluntly, RIF is absolute garbage. The design is completely outdated and feels like a step backward from where we were even a few years ago
I'm certainly here after that
Honestly, I learned that I like how sync presents content to me,and it's really less about what site it's for
Because a lot of us like having a sleek app.
I was skeptical when people were saying "just wait until sync launches". I've been using Lemmy since the blackout and feel like there has been a noticeable jump in the quality and quantity of comments in the last few days. I'm not actually a fan of the app (Voyager and Summit are my favourites, Summit has the edge just now), but whatever the reason I'm pretty happy.
I was using Jerboa before and was unable to comment. So yeah Sync.
I am still using Jerboa. It's better than before, but still has glitches. I am sticking with it to spite myself.
Yeah, I never had good luck with jerboa... it worked sometimes, but I was mostly using liftoff (which is pretty good, in my opinion).
Same here. I could log in, but I couldn't switch away from the anonymous user. I wrote out a few detailed comments and found that they couldn't be sent, tracking down the thread on the browser version to paste the comment I wrote in was a terrible UX, so I stopped bothering.
To be fair, didn't a few Lemmy and FOSS apps get released during the same week?
Yeah, Infinity was released too.
It's nice to be able to open a post and then get back to where you were before opening it quickly and easily.
Doubt it, otherwise day 2 would have a high rate also. I think it may have been a dodgy instance federating.
I'm here after installing Sync. I have used it every day for years with Reddit but I stopped using Reddit completely when it was disconnected from third party apps. It's so familiar it makes Lemmy an easy transition
It's why I am here
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'm a simp for slick ux...
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.
Not a sync user but i found infinity for lemmy so i have my old reddit client back too
If only Sync didn't display lemmy.world as the main instance.... .world is barely keeping up lol
Yeah it's a tricky one isn't it. There hopefully will become a better solution for helping people onboard to different servers that suit them but without making too big of a hurdle.
I must admit I joined .world without understanding anything and it was prompted to me so yeah the default choice has a big say. I have donated to server costs though, felt like I should do my part at least!
How do you choose a server? I just clicked the first one.
You visit that server directly and create a new account and log in with that. There is no way to 'switch' although I think people have created ways to migrate your subscriptions etc over to a different server.
I made one on each instance but ended up with this as my main when Cole reached out offering us a place to migrate /r/android to (![email protected]).
Same. I also joined world as it was the first option shown. Are there any differences between world and the other servers?
I guess if you're just looking for a generic reddit-like experience then .world for now seems to do the job just fine. Ultimately it has admins that can choose to de-federate from any other server and they may do that to ones you would rather they didn't. Every server is going to be somewhat unique on that front with their own set of rules to follow (or not).
It's really interesting because it always will become somewhat political - with servers that have a tendency for more extreme views whether right or left wing, where do you draw the line before deciding to cut them off? That has already been happening in the short time I joined with servers like Hexbear which I honestly still don't fully understand the history and complexity of the situation.
My plan so far at least is to keep an eye on the lemmy.world announcements subreddit and if they do anything that I disagree with too much then I can move on elsewhere but I'm quite happy letting others do that level of curation for now at least without keeping too much of a close eye.
Awesome, my first account was a .world too lol in fact I created a few communities there, and still mod them. But I use this one as my main now to lurk, post and comment
Decided to join Lemmy after having issues with the Reddit app and Relay not getting along. Facebook groups as of late have been flaming garbage. Twitter is now an.. X. I'm not touching Reddit again unless Google sends me there. Sync seems to do the job quite well.
I've tried Mastodon before. It just wasn't my cuppa. This is my new public facing social home I think.
I either crashed or error editing out using any of the existing Lemmy apps for me personally. Sync has a better sorting algorithm too.
I went from 1 comment a week to a few a day, I can't be the only one.
Sync definitely helped with that.
I know I've been commenting a lot more w/ sync.
Sync for Lemmy ftw!
seems to be acting up for me, feeds not loading correctly, etc.
I've been trying to comment more to add to the communities that I'm a part of. On Reddit I was a lurker and never commented because the communities were so large and by the time I got to the post it had already blown up. Now on Lemmy the communities are much smaller and I want to foster some discussion or at least add something to these smaller communities to help them grow. Most posts have less than 10 comments or frequently none so I think it's important to foster some additional engagement. I've completely stopped using Reddit and yeah I do miss it from time to time, but I don't see myself going back unless significant change takes place.
Bro ask the Apollo dev to create Apollo for Lemmy. That'll be a deathblow to reddit.
Not from the Apollo dev, but Voyager is very Apollo'ish.
That's good to hear but isn't that for android?
Yes, but iOS also. I'm using it on my iPad.
Wow! That's so cool. Lemmy FTW!!
I'm one of them. Never used lemmy because none of the available apps werent as sleek, stable, and functional as the reddit apps of old. But now sync is a great app so I use Lemmy a lot more.
"Reddit Won"
Context: https://gizmodo.com/reddit-news-blackout-protest-is-finally-over-reddit-won-1850707509
I just started using lemmy now that sync is available
It reminds me a lot of Boost for reddit. It shares many of the same features and has a similar layout.
Boost for Lemmy is releasing soon, too! Will be interesting to compare the two.
Sycn launced 4 days ago though...🤦
See, I know what you're saying when you refer to it as a third party app, but this isn't reddit.
Sync is not a third party app because we don't have any real parties to speak of. Sync is equal to Lemmy as any other client! That's the beauty of decentralization!
You know I did actually question myself when I wrote that haha, but I went with it anyway.
I mean the definition could still probably apply though perhaps under the logic that the developer has nothing to do with the development of Lemmy. He is just a third party to it. The lack of a first party doesn't change that Sync is a third party, maybe...
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
agree, and personally I am glad to see the rise and welcome the new users!
My only gripe is the infighting going on around sync right now. I personally don't really care bout the debate itself but it seems to have spread everywhere!
I have found myself using Lemmy a lot more in general since Sync. Much better than all of the other apps imo.
Sync's a really smooth experience, I'm enjoying it. Hopefully moderator tools will be back soon, that's one of the biggest weaknesses of the Lemmy app space right now.
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.
I've definitely commented more since the launch of sync than in the whole month before. But it's not just that, also the quality of content here has improved over time, and it coincided with the launch that there was seemingly more to talk about.
Personally I’ve just been commenting more. No rhyme or reason really. I like the community and feel more open to share my opinion. It feels more welcoming than Reddit. Maybe people are getting over Reddit toxicity and coming out of their shells?
That's not the number of daily comments, it's the total number of comments, by day.
So on day X there were totally Y comments on Lemmy.
The big jump is probably related to some instance adding a bot that copies content e.g. from Reddit.
How does it go down, then.
Probably with instances getting deactivated, spam getting deleted or instances being down during the reporting period.
That jump really makes no sense at all, then. Unless a bunch got reported all at once for some reason?
Wonder when Apollo is going live, that should be another significant bump.
Last I checked, the Apollo dev said they aren't interested in making a Lemmy app.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
This comment should be pinned. Are community mods able to do that?
I was using Thunder, but I'm def more active now that I'm on Sync
Thunder was great, but..... I'm just too used to Sync, it has a head start 😬
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.
The only piece of software I love like you guys love Sync is Emacs.
I must say sync is pretty great. Just bugs me that I can't yet alter the size of all the text instead of only comments. I am sure the developer will implement these options so I am not fretting.
I was a relay pro user and this is really close to it so I am happy.
Yup, created my account a month ago but found it a hassle to navigate on mobile, and actively started commenting the moment sync dropped
i use sync btw
How much comments does reddit have a day?
Good question. Best I could find is this:
https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#how-many-comments-are-published-on-reddit
Which says Reddit comments in 2020 were 2 billion (I think that's net for the year not total all time at the end of that year at least?)
So thats ~5.5 million per day
Very safe to say Lemmy is not getting double that lol so these charts are misleading/confusing.
Hmmm yeah that doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to research into it cause I just woke up and have to marinate some chicken
Consensus seems to be the lemmy chart is actually total cumulative comments, but I can't really work out where millions of comments would come from in a matter of days. Maybe some weird bot spam on some random instance that is being counted when it probably shouldn't.
Enjoy the chicken!
Thanks!
federation with other previously unfederated instances full of comments. just a guess.
The chart is for 'all servers' already supposedly rather than from the perspective of a single instance though so would that be possible? Or can an instance exist sort of privately and then become visible causing a spike?
Having PTSD flashbacks to waiting for my steam deck
Unsuprisingly, it is a smooth transition thanks to sync. Have been using redditsync for many years
What's the best iOS client until someone can talk Christian into fixing Apollo for Lemmy?
Why I'm so tired of sync post that I'm not when going to try...
I know English is probably not Our first English it isn't mine either, but one has to admit: that sentence is a grammatical piece of art; and a modern one as well😅
Your comment ain’t too bad either 😂
Made my account around the time it became relevant with the API issues on the platform of the one moderating a fav sub of mine.
Became active with sync. It is just easier to access any social media via a good app.
Sync is made by one guy. Not a company.
Yes it's one person, the LTD is likely for tax purposes but it's just him, no employees.
contributing to the statistics from sync here
I'm surprised that sync had such a major impact. Still happy that it did.
It wasn't because of Sync. The increase happened before Sync for Lemmy was even available. Notice how it jumped up and then didn't rise again? Probably a dodgy instance federated.