Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in
Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in
So I stumbled across this site called [Discuit](https://discuit.net/), and it’s… surprisingly good. It’s basically like Reddit but way...
Also, if you have doubts about brigading, Discuit have a brigading post on their meta community: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/pTyw2MZw
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According to this post, disqus.com has a ton more traffic than LW. Specifically, 16.4M vs. a mere 496k for November. disqus says 2 pages per visit and 3.5 min duration while LW says 3 pages per visit and less than half that duration.
I guess a lot of people simply scroll memes and/or barely click on actual posts rather than leave the site by clicking on an outside link.
I think also that Lemmy trends more towards an older crowd than the teenagers on Reddit, which would be expected to skew the stats a bit in terms of speaking more, while listening less, etc. And too the way the posts load on Reddit I would expect to be engineered precisely to inflate the stats: instead of loading one page worth of posts if it loads a significantly smaller amount (1-3 posts at a time in the infinite scroll?) that could count as a new "visit" each time as someone scrolls? Similarly for disqus, if they do similarly (I have no idea).
Alternately, I don't know how the various app calls work - for Lemmy, or Reddit, or does disqus even have one - e.g. if the Lemmy ones in particular might not count as "web traffic" somehow.
In any case, they aren't promoting disqus as being higher in that list than Lemmy.World without any reason at all. It might not be a good reason but there is one at least:-).