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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'm gonna blame it on all the sync haters just commenting about how sync sucks and why FOSS is so much better.
So, should we thank them?
I used Sync for Reddit for about 10 years but with the switch to the Fediverse I've adopted more of a FOSS mindset.
My initial reaction was vitriolic for no other reason than being disappointed due to my own expectations. I'm sure it's still a great app and I still absolutely appreciate and respect lj; it's just not for me anymore. But that doesn't give me the right to force my opinion on others.
Ultimately I'm just happy we're growing and I believe that's what we should be focussing on.
Top 6 app behind X (still can't get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite... not bad
Just call it Twitter like everyone else lol.
A. It's more convenient and clear. B. It will probably piss off Musk.
Now B is a cause I can get behind...
I like the "corporations don't get to have deadnames" take
It's currently #10 in the Google Play store, under the "social" category. (First is TikTok.) 
3.9 million of those comments are people complaining about the price or that it's not FOSS.
Think a fair few comments on it's price is warranted considering it's 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)
I mean you don't have to pay for Ultra. Sync is mostly free. It's just a few extra features that are premium, so what are you all complaining about.
25$ isn't for ultra though but just to remove the ads, ultra is more expensive still
Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!
+1 from Infinity
Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy
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 π€·ββοΈ
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.
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.
This is me. I don't know why I thought Mastodon would click for me when Twitter never did. I can't bring myself to yell into the void. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, idk. Much happier here.
Yeah definitely a different kind of social media. I come on here to browse the trending content and see what other people are saying about it. It's content focused, rather then Mastodon where it's focused on a person's single post and gets easily buried among low effort posts.
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...?
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
Same boat as you, used to encounter multiple bugs and crashes with Jerboa... Since switching to Sync I haven't encountered a single crash.
I really like how it auto translates links to comments on other instances and has lots of other small QoL features that show the dev really cares about the app.
Other users who are just choosing apps by how the UI looks and Lemmy's stock features have missed a lot of the things that make Sync stand out π€·ββοΈ I've customised mine to resemble Infinity (the app I used for reddit) and I'm pretty damn satisfied rn with the gestures, performance and much longer battery life when browsing.
Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where "Yay, Sync!" and the other 2 million were "REEE, Sync!"
Honestly, I learned that I like how sync presents content to me,and it's really less about what site it's for
Imagine when the dev adds the ability to post from the app
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.
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.
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
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.
I went from 1 comment a week to a few a day, I can't be the only one.
Sync definitely helped with that.
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
Doubt it, otherwise day 2 would have a high rate also. I think it may have been a dodgy instance federating.
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.
