Numbers of posts, active servers and daily users have a mostly linear increase day to day but comments hence engagement have skyrocketed. It makes me think it's mostly not bots
Yeah my guess as well. The Reddit blackouts have been going for quite a while, and the 3rd party apps are still going. There's no reason why we would suddenly grow 300K in a day
I personally was able to go a week without reddit and just be a normal person. The need for a replacement grew. And lemmy has been picking up enough thy I feel like I can come here whenever I pick up my phone and have a decent chance of getting content for my dumb chronicly content addicted brain.
So yeah. Probably a bunch of other people doing the same. I finally created an account yesterday after a bunch of days lurking.
@WhoRoger Let's not forget the fact that Lemmy and Kbin are both connected to the broader Fediverse, thanks to the AcitivityPub protocol! In other words, might be 1 mill Lemmy-accounts, but many more mill potential users that could interact with the content even without Lemmy or Kbin! 😄
True. Haven't seen a lot of people from outside Lemmy interact here, but that might be another interesting wave if something from Lemmy gets traction on Mastodon or wherever.
TBF that's accounts across Lemmy, but still, the single instance Lemmy.world has been growing like crazy. It's gonna be wild watching this place grow over the next few months and years.