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  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    574·
    2 years 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
      15·
      2 years 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·
        2 years 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
      10·
      2 years 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
        11·
        2 years 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·
          2 years ago

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

          • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            2 years ago

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

            • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
              93·
              2 years 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
                102·
                2 years 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 😏

  • ProgramYourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Just came in from reddit, so from a newbie point of view so far so good, altho the content and users are not as expanded as reddit i think its a matter of time. people are haphazardly looking for alternatives and the only reason people stay is because of the interaction. I for instance immediately tried looking up the threads i was subbed to reddit as well. Its there just not as big and ill gladly trade it in instead of dealing with reddit any longer.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    281·
    2 years ago

    Damn, 40k monthly active users on lemmy? That’s much less than I expected. And the number’s dropping.

    Well, at least for me, there’s no going back to reddit.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Although less important in other places, knowing that there probably about 400 people sharing most of the content (1% of 40k), is still important.

      • Jackcooper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        I think a negative trend is really important… if we are shrinking we are shrinking. Content will decline if the trend isn’t reversed.

    • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Fuck Reddit, but I also feel like Boost will give us a boost. It’s got some features I’ve yet to find on other apps and hopefully will make Lemmy a little easier for people like me who made the switch

      It’s also pretty much exactly like the app for reddit was which had a big following so hopefully will make it easier for former boost on Reddit users to switch to lemmy

  • jacktherippah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    We need more normal users on lemmy tbh. So far, my impression of lemmy is that it’s full of tech enthusiast. I’m one too, so I largely enjoyed it, but eventually it gets annoying and tiring listening to tech bros and FOSS diehards whining about something not being open source or something. I just want more normal content from normal people. I hope boost and sync gets more former Reddit users to sign up.

    • SuperSleuth@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Just have to be patient while reddit continues to ruin themselves. They just got rid of ad personalization opt-out, what’s next?

  • pingu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    I joined reddit using boost. So it’s natural to join lemmy using boost. Kinda feels like home ig.

  • drgnfckr@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    I had already stopped using Reddit, just waiting for boost to drop. The only content I find lacking is adult content. Memes, gaming, and news all have enough users here that even though it’s less than reddit I’m not missing out. Maybe it will get me to spend a little less time on my phone. But between this and Mastodon I’m happy to pioneer a new kind of social media.

  • Jackcooper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    This thread, while pointing out that there’s some negative trends in active users that can be concerning, actually gave me some hope that there’s many more people here with interests besides Linux and communism. Honestly I find this promising for the long term existence of Lemmy.

  • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Finding an app I liked really helped improve the experience, since it made things feel less clunky. Most of my use is through mobile now.

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Is it possible that people browsing anonymously and/or logging in with the same account on multiple apps influenced the numbers?

    I admit that I’ve been bouncing between Sync and Boost since the release. I like both for slightly different reasons.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        43·
        2 years ago

        I thought monthly active users was the number of accounts that have made a comment or post in the past month.

        Logging in with the same account on different apps shouldn’t influence the numbers at all.

  • Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • bottas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Kind of the same for me. Just to add that I only heard about Boost after the whole thing came about

      Tried some apps, and decided to wait until this one became available.

      It’s a very similar experience IMHO, love the customization options.

  • shastaxc@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    2 years ago

    I think a big part of the problem is the sign up page, which is being worked on. Also, lemmy.world goes offline just about every day and is one of the larger instances so lots of new users go there and then have a bad experience. And it needs to be made easier for users to find out about all the third party clients available to browse Lemmy because the default client leaves much to be desired.

    Most people won’t go out of their way to switch instances when lemmy.world goes offline enough to make them quit the fediverse, or try navigating around the base client and become upset at all the unnecessary button bloat and missing basic features like blocking an instance.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    136·
    2 years ago

    With all the political extremism and propaganda on here I’d be surprised if numbers stabilize any time soon.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      You’ll never fully be able to escape crazies in a network built out of human beings. That said:

      • It’s important to remember a lot of people in the Lemmy-verse are there because they were banned from Reddit for being too obnoxious.

      • The next update will allow users to block entire instances which should help cut down on some of that

    • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Depends on what you’re here for, reddit had a bunch of extremists but they were cut out of r/all so it was less obvious. Here you get a glimpse of everything and should take care of your home feed by subscribing to what you want to see. On my first scroll of lemmy I start on my home feed, then browse all if feel l haven’t found anything to read, adding to my subscribed communities if I find anything good.

  • Jackcooper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    There’s 4 million posts on lemmy a day? Where?? I go thru maybe 500 on top day and by the end of it I’m in things with like 3 upvotes and 0 comments

    • Hubi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      There are instances that just mirror content from other sites which leads to a ton of posts with zero discussion. They have been defederated by the larger instances because it spammed the all-feed.

    • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Bots and automated tools to be blamed here if stats are accurate.

      I cleaned up my feed but now I only have around 7-15 posts in the feed section each day and ~3 are interesting.