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.

  • o_oli@lemmy.worldOP
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    Impressive! Honestly I can totally understand this growth myself because it mirrors very well my own interactions here. When third party apps died I came here, tried a bunch of apps, made a bunch of comments and then didn’t really stick around because I couldn’t find a good enough app I liked.

    Then when Sync released I have barely touched reddit and been 95% on Lemmy again.

    I am still very impressed if Sync alone is responsible for 4 million additional comments per day though. That is rather staggering if it’s true.

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      1 year ago

      I guess one thing I would note is that this latest surge appears to have happened at the end of July. Didn’t Sync finally release in August?

      There is another smaller jump in the beginning of August, too…

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        Good point. I’m unsure on the exact dates/times/timezones involved but it does sort of look like there was a good increase in comments maybe a day or so before Sync release. If that is not Sync though I’m struggling to think what else would cause it…

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          I think a couple apps restarted on Lemmy around the same time Sync came out. I know boost showed up, and I’ve seen a bunch of newly released app announcement threads in the last week.

          Probably a combination of new and better apps. I know I basically just lurked until sync came out. It just feels familiar, and all the features I want are just here. The only thing I think I want, is to see how many down votes are on posts, but it’s literally the only thing I can think of.