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.
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.
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
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!
federation with other previously unfederated instances full of comments. just a guess.
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.
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).
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.
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😅
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.
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.
