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.
Before Sync I settled on Connect, it's a really nice app. But Sync is a great app, one of the best implementations of Material I've used. And its UI is the result of years of work on the Reddit app, so it's got a lot more features and is already more polished than the others, despite being in beta.
Edit: for example, I just came across a link to an xkcd comic. When you tap the link it directly displays the comic's image, and when you tap the little speech bubble in the lower right corner you get this. Sync's got a lot of neat little features like that (as another example it took 3 taps to upload and link to the screenshot above).