I personally had 4 active accounts in August, until I settled on one instance I like. Very likely many others did the same, so these numbers are far from perfect.
I created an account on Lemmy.world earlier this summer but it remained dormant for the most part because I tend to participate in these kinds of forums from my phone. It’s similar to a preference to watching movies and television shows on a television. I wasn’t streaming until apps and services became available to stream and watch directly on my TV. I just wasn’t going to watch on my phone or computer except once in a blue moon.
After experimenting with several apps, Boost for Reddit was what I preferred and used for a long while back there. As soon as Boost became available for Lemmy, the ease of participating here for me was as smooth as silk. For others that Boost was a fave with, it’s probably the same.
It’s great that activity is on the rise on alternatives such as Lemmy.
I can confirm it’s the same for me. I was actually trying to avoid lemmy for a while and would only hope on for 5 minutes or so a day, but now that boost is here it feels really natural to want to participate, and even just scroll top for a while
I think that’s total. As servers go offline, the total number of posts can go down. I guess “average” refers to the total posts on the network, checked every hour or whatever, then averaged across the day.
I’ve been following the stats closely. There were actually several times that the active users ticked down and then ticked up the next day, the most recent being September 19/20. But I suspect that may be a statistical artifact, whereas the increase on September 28 is legit. It looks like about 1000 new accounts were created/became active on that day.
User attrition has slowed significantly in September compared to August. We should stabilize somewhere in 30,000 range for MAUs before the end of the year, which is not too shabby. We are unlikely to see another big wave of growth until the code is significantly more mature, but the current userbase is fairly well established and self sufficient.
I can’t wait until we get that next wave so we can have more sports fans and humanities types, but you guys are alright for now 😅
It looks like about 1000 new accounts were created/became active on that day.
I remember @antik mentioning similar numbers, so that’s probably this.
We should stabilize somewhere in 30,000 range for MAUs before the end of the year
That’s what I foresee as well.
so we can have more sports fans and humanities types
Discoverability of those communities is probably the first issue to fix. I tried to address it a while back, maybe I should do another one of those posts: discuss.tchncs.de/post/2410183
Same. Using Linux and FOSS for over 20 years but that Boost announcement thread was toxic. We just started removing those comments and banning them from the community. Those people don’t see those 1000 people that came here thanks to boost will now more than likely come across Linux and Foss related subjects anyway. No need to push it down their throats and push them back to reddit.
Honestly there are people doing this because they know it annoys people.
Ofcourse there were people calling me a “poweradmin” because of it, but I have thick skin 😁 And a large banhammer 😏
30,000 range for MAUs before the end of the year, … current userbase is fairly well established and self sufficient.
I see it differently. It looks like the majority of communities struggle with not enough content/discussions, many de-facto are blogs of mods/creators where others are passive subscribers.
It looks like the majority of communities struggle with not enough content/discussions
This is true, but also subjective. How do you define enough? Enough to doomscroll or enough to check for 10 minutes daily? All we really need to be self sufficient is enough content to keep people coming back regularly, we don’t need to replicate reddit.
many de-facto are blogs of mods/creators where others are passive subscribers.
This seems like an exaggeration. Most communities that have quality content also have quality discussion, in my experience.
This is true, but also subjective. How do you define enough? Enough to doomscroll or enough to check for 10 minutes daily? All we really need to be self sufficient is enough content to keep people coming back regularly, we don’t need to replicate reddit.
Right, this is subjective. For me the main criteria is: if I want to get an answer to a question, especially a non trivial one which is not releated to lemmy/fediverse - I should better go to reddit. And I think lemmy should better replicate reddit with this
This seems like an exaggeration. Most communities that have quality content also have quality discussion, in my experience.
Probably, can you give me example of such communities which are not about fedeverse, technology, foss or memes?
For me the main criteria is: if I want to get an answer to a question, especially a non trivial one which is not releated to lemmy/fediverse - I should better go to reddit.
You’re not wrong, but I don’t see why Lemmy would want to replicate reddit in that respect. You don’t need to spend any time on reddit or even make an account to take advantage of that functionality. You just Google your question and add reddit to the end and voila.
Probably, can you give me example of such communities which are not about fedeverse, technology, foss or memes?
I also skipped the gaming and political communities because there is an absolute boatload of that content on Lemmy, as I’m sure you’re aware. These are some communities that I am subscribed to that jumped out as being fairly active.
You don’t need to spend any time on reddit or even make an account to take advantage of that functionality. You just Google your question and add reddit to the end and voila.
I was talking about asking my specific question, not googling for information.
Thanks for the list - agree - these communities are are rather alive, what is promising.
As I said a bit lower in this thread, on Lemmy World we recently switched the default view from ‘local’ to ‘all’ for the new sign-ups. But it might be a good thing to do this once, for all existing users. Ofcourse with a proper announcement and an explanation on how to change this to ‘local’ or even ‘subscribed’. It might give communities on other instances a bit more exposure as well.
Sounds great. I mean, given the size of lemmy.world it sure doesn’t hurt it and it will certainly distribute more user attention to smaller communities, which will hopefully activate smaller communities from remote instance, which will in turn make the overall conversation quality on lemmy better.
Excited to see whether it will be a noticable effect but I would think so
Did you notice that the Average Lemmy Comments by Day looks really weird? Some of the sudden jumps could be attributed to real life events, but I’m more inclined to think there’s something buggy going on with the way three numbers are logged. Besides, there’s also a sudden dip!
It is tagged NSFW now. I messed around with in not being a few times but have left it tagged for a while now. It definitely gets more activity when not tagged. Which way were you meaning in your post? You confused me with the last part.
Alright, let me clarify. There are currently two ways to tag content as NSFW
the whole community
per posts
It seems that as now the whole community is tagged, while actually most of the content there is SFW, and it could maybe be possible to untag the community, and only tag specific tag posts that are NSFW?
I’ve had various people reach out to me about it including @freamon who runs the trending bot and asked me to keep it tagged NSFW. I’ll untag it again and see how it goes lol.
Ah, I see. It’s borderline, actually. Like the last one with Bambi and the shower can definitely be checked at work, but with the text, maybe not ha ha
I think the Fediverse.observer stats for the 19th are off - it's showing that drop across all software categories - Mastodon and Kbin show the same dip.
I don’t even understand those stats, apparently there are around 1 Mio. Lemmy users and 8.5 Mio. Posts per day? So every user creates 8.5 Posts per day?
Could this be due to the .ml and a few other domains thing again? The issuer is gradually pulling all of the free domains from people, while leaving the paid users active until their term is up.
I was thinking it’s only spam servers, but it might actually just be downtime for hetzner or something.
Instances do not get banned on lemmy. You can run any kind of an instance.
That said, part of this could be providers pruning “fake customers”, aka spammers, scammers, etc, who “paid” for their servers with stolen CC and SSN.
Edit: Someone up to making an uptime map for Lemmy, placing servers on a map based on where they report originating at? This could help seeing if a specific datacenter has downtime.
Not super consistent but it does place all kinds of services on a map.
*When you reccomend the site that the OP came from to as a solution to a followup post… 🫤 stil it works. Also found out today that when you put the site through cloudflare it takes it off the map which is kind of a +/-
I only subscribe to 4 German communities, and I can very clearly see by an influx of posts and comments on my front page when my countrypeople wake up, so I could actually believe that :D
I’m loving it here but yeah hope there’s a bit more engagement. I think the main thing people need to focus on is building up the more common communities. From there we can slowly branch out as more people join. If we spread out too thin we’re just going to get graveyard communities.
As we grow we can focus on expanding and getting more of those niche communities going .
To many small /one person / abandoned communities. People need tolbe posting more to the popular ones until more people show up. But just like early reddit days people wont.
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