A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
50,000 people is a LOT of people. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the millions of users on reddit and other social media sites are either separated and isolated into smaller segments, or even then most people just lurk.
I looked at the participation (active user) rate, it shows above 20% in Beehaw and 7% overall in Lemmy. Normally subreddits of 3,000-6,000 are kind of slow and people post once in a while, most probably lurk.
Here, at least for now it’s really buzzing, people get a sense that they can be heard and real conversations are happening.
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
The situation in November with Fosstodon (Mastodon instance) & Twitter might be analogous.
Fosstodon had about 20k users, at the start of November, and more than 50k by the end.
There was definitely an initial surge of activity which diminished after a time, but it didn’t return to it’s previous level.
I don’t have the data but the vibe is that the users to activity ratio stayed about the same, now 6 months on it feels like there’s 250% of the activity that there was at the same time last year.
Of course loads of people are creating accounts here just to have a look but will probably never post, but there’s also plenty of new users who will be engaged long term.
Yeah, I’m usually just a lurker but Lemmy makes me want to take part of the experience. I really hope that it will take off in the long run.
I’d wager a large percentage are bots, too!
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.