• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    844·
    1 year ago

    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 😅

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • blue_berry@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        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

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      It looks like about 1000 new accounts were created/became active on that day.

      I remember @antik@lemmy.world 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: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2410183

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        We changed the default view for new users on LW from “local” to “all” communities a few days ago.

        • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Interesting, hopefully new joiners won’t stumble directly upon communities that might push them away ha ha

          • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            1 year ago

            Imagine joining thanks to Boost and the first thing you see is “boost? Ewww go away, use Foss”

            • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
              173·
              1 year ago

              Don’t get me started on this, FOSS gatekeepers can really have a detrimental effect on the platform.

              I love FOSS as much as the next guy, but if my cousin is asking me support for an Office issue, I’m not going to tell them to install LibreOffice.

              • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
                172·
                1 year ago

                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 😏

    • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          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?

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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!