It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?
Slow organic growth is far better than explosives, unsustainable growth. We continue to provide content and actual authentic conversation and they will come.
Yep, I also love the late 00s and early 10s feeling to Lemmy now. I find myself having more stuff done IRL since quitting reddit and browsing Lemmy occasionally.
I’m finding I use Lemmy more than Reddit, because the place is less hostile and the discussions are usually actually worth reading again.
And I’m finding myself actually posting comments instead of drafting and deleting them like I did on Reddit for the last 6-7 years. The comment threads really deteriorated on Reddit over the last decade
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I came. And I agree. Anything that gets too popular too quickly just turns to shit. A huge influx of users who stuck around would have ended up turning this place into Reddit 2.0
I don’t want this to be Reddit 2.0
I came too.
Content is up but users are down. Take that as you will.
Link bots with thousands and thousands of posts.
Active users is up slightly, that’s a better metric for growth of the platform imo.
I think they purged a shit ton of bots so wouldn’t that count as users?
Content is up but users are down
I used the Point of View gun. It was me. Sorry. But now you all share my suffering. Hah!
Until the next big social media fuck up, which neither Spez nor Musk can stop themselves from making.
You’re just here early, and the platform still needs work. It hasn’t even hit 1.0 yet.
Oh I don’t mind at all. I liked it here. I think it only bugs me when statistics reporting is contingent on good news.
I think while the general communities have made it, a lot of niche communities failed to attract enough population to keep on generating more content. As an example, just search for the “Imaginary” series of landscape art communities on the Fediverse (eg. ImaginaryVistas). Many of them don’t have any recent posts or 1 post per days or weeks. That’s not enough to keep people invested. Even the largest digital art community is still mostly carried by 1 person.
Yes! I think we have many communities that are either:
- way too specific
- carbon copies of identical topic on another instance
Carbon copies are actually quite of an issue on the long term. It is difficult to understand the best one for a topic unless one visits many of them.
Also because the number of subscriptions that one sees is only from their instance
As someone who mostly lurks/occasionally comments and someone who likes to view hot/active posts from all communities, repeat posts from similar communities in different instances is something I find really annoying. I’ll see the same post four or five times as I scroll. It can make things feel really empty to see the same things more than once.
September will be a boost when HS and college get going.
Then Reddit will mess up again and we will have another big influx. Its bound to happen.
I noticed the same thing on Mastodon. The new users per day ratio is slowing, but each time Elon does his thing there’s a new wave.
That would be an honest shame. All of this fuss of moving over and for what? Just for that rush of a breeze of not being on Reddit? I wondered how many treated it as that, took a break from Reddit before hopping back onto Reddit expecting things to magically improve during the time they were gone for.
It’s still a shitty place, people.
Yup, but I’m getting very strong Google+ vibes…
No matter how small and quiet it gets here, I like it better than what Reddit has become.
it is just showing how much people actually use reddit on pc plus how much people dont care about actually using the bad reddit official app vs coming here where the communities are still few and front page is still so uninteresting
For now… until reddit’s admins find themselves some more feet to shoot themselves in. In the interim there’s always going to be a steady flow of those who have been permabanned for obscure and arbitrary reasons
