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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[-] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[-] Cytoplasm2435@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think most are still figuring out how this all works. I barely did anything the first couple days too. Its a bit confusing at first and takes some time for people to find their place.