Daily Lemmy comments up from ~7m to ~11m following the launch of Sync?

I'm gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.

Top 6 app behind X (still can't get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite... not bad

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Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.

3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it's not FOSS.

Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!

Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where "Yay, Sync!" and the other 2 million were "REEE, Sync!"

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.

Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy

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.

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.

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 🤷‍♂️

Well the sole reason now my account exists and has so many replies is coz of sync.

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.

Imagine when the dev adds the ability to post from the app

Boost for reddit is also releasing soon, expect this chart to blow up once again.

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.

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

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

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...?

It's not only because of Sync alot of other FOSS apps were released or got an update around the same time.

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.

Sync definitely has me commenting more personally

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.

I'm certainly here after that

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.

Honestly, I learned that I like how sync presents content to me,and it's really less about what site it's for

I was using Jerboa before and was unable to comment. So yeah Sync.

Doubt it, otherwise day 2 would have a high rate also. I think it may have been a dodgy instance federating.

To be fair, didn't a few Lemmy and FOSS apps get released during the same week?

It's nice to be able to open a post and then get back to where you were before opening it quickly and easily.

I'm a simp for slick ux...

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.

It's why I am here

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

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

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.

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.

Sync for Lemmy ftw!

I know I've been commenting a lot more w/ sync.

If only Sync didn't display lemmy.world as the main instance.... .world is barely keeping up lol

Bro ask the Apollo dev to create Apollo for Lemmy. That'll be a deathblow to reddit.

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.

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.

"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

Sycn launced 4 days ago though...🤦

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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!

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 have found myself using Lemmy a lot more in general since Sync. Much better than all of the other apps imo.

I’m contributing

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.

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.

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.

Wonder when Apollo is going live, that should be another significant bump.

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.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

The only piece of software I love like you guys love Sync is Emacs.

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 😬

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 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.

How much comments does reddit have a day?

Unsuprisingly, it is a smooth transition thanks to sync. Have been using redditsync for many years

i use sync btw

Having PTSD flashbacks to waiting for my steam deck

What's the best iOS client until someone can talk Christian into fixing Apollo for Lemmy?

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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.

contributing to the statistics from sync here

I'm surprised that sync had such a major impact. Still happy that it did.