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It's hard to tell because the graphs aren't labeled very well, but it looks to me like those graphs for comments and posts are the total numbers, not the numbers per day. In my anecdotal experience, there's just no way lemmy is already getting as much new comments and posts as reddit, it's just not that busy.
Edit: Oh wait, I see they go down at the end. Hmm, I wonder if they're double counting posts and comments then.
Yesterday there was at least one lemmy app that was multiposting comments, sometimes as many as 6 or 7 times.
I know Memmy was. But I was under the impression that that was a Lemmy backend issue rather than an app issue.
That is a fair point and something I was thinking about. The heading definitely threw me off that path "average lemmy posts per day". With that. it would be around 1/30th, but considering activity was low at the start of the month and higher by the end, it would be hard to get accurate numbers for that. The average went up 30k in 1 day to yesterday. 30k a day, is 900k total. Which makes this all the more confusing... :)
Frankly, those numbers are too good to make any real sense.
I am very dubious of those numbers. There's a 0% chance Lemmy is even a fraction of Reddit's size at the moment. https://the-federation.info/platform/73
This website indicates there is only 2.7M comments in TOTAL. I'm much more inclined to believe these stats.
Another thought I had was some of the Active posts here get around 1.5k to 2k upvotes. Often on reddit, that is around 20-30k. So Lemmy could be around a 10th of that size.
Potentially in terms of activity, there is the passive consumption side of reddit (which is massive), and the active contributor side. Even if Lemmy is doing well in terms of the active contributor side, that is very useful to draw in the passive consumers. Potentially many want something known and trusted and maybe are less tech savvy. They may follow good content.
Isn’t the high numbers because of the bot invasion we had a few days ago?
That's just the user count though. I haven't seen much evidence of much bot created comments. (I mean, there's @bot@lemmit.online though...)
User Arotrios made me aware of a bot today that keeps posting advertisements(?) to /m/tech their username is Vaishnavi @ kbin.social for reference