Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
Its actually very good
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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This is not a bad thing. Lurkers have always been a significant part of the user base in all social media.
I mentioned this in another thread but I think it's regression to the mean
Lurker mainly but looking to get more involved!
I can use Lenny with Lenny sync on my phone without issue but when I try to use my browser on my laptop I can't login. It's the same instance, save credentials.
Posting smth so I count as an active user again
What I don't get are the people who'd join new communities and just do nothing with them. Like, you're the lifeblood of said community, it's nothing unless you contribute to it. But they join them, see nothing or nobody and just abandon. It's annoying and sad. It's almost expectant that there must be things going on within the hour or it's just best forgotten.
And that's probably the only thing playing to Reddit's advantage right now. Even if most of the content is shallow and empty with nothing useful being said, there's always something running within minutes.
We don't really need the users who used Lemmy as just a brief spot because they wanted to feel good about going elsewhere, knowing that they'll succumb back to Reddit's shit and they'll be all defeatist again. Must be a masochistic thing.
You say this, but people have the right to be lurkers if they want. No one is forced to keep a community going.
Moving one over here was fairly hard for this reason. I admittedly should be keeping it up still, but where realizing I had nine whole subscribers made me really happy (there are tens of us!), realizing nobody was ever going to make a move of any sort even to comment and that I was going to continue carrying this entire community by myself has made me very discouraged.
I know most people are content to lurk while they look for something that's interesting enough to post/interact with. I do that too. But come on, guys. Don't do me like this. Nobody goes online to sit and talk to themselves.
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Lemmy feels, some days, like its bots all the way down. Just reddit repost bots everywhere.
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To be expected. I like it but it's still quite an immature platform overall. There's lots to be done to make it easier for an average user.
The number of posts per day keeps growing though.