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There might be a significant number of users here waiting for everyone else to switch over to lemmy. If you start a niche community, it’s a little easier for someone else to be like “It’s kind of empty, but it exists on lemmy too.” What you need is a critical mass of people. It usually takes time and effort to reach that, and someone must be first.
I think the problem is that theres a lot of niche communities created for an exodus from Reddit that didnt really happen.
If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months…
If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months…
I’ve come across this multiple times, and have had (or seen) some success with the following:
- Start posting to the dormant community. There are usually still some people subscribed, so you’ll get a few upvotes.
- Reach out to the moderators. If they don’t respond, reach out to the instance administrators to request the community.
- After a few weeks of posting regularly, promote the community in [email protected], and any related communities with more subscribers.
I think the “if you build it they will come” adage applies quite well here.
It didn’t happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there’s nothing and not doing anything.
I do wonder if its a help or a hinderance though.
If someone wanted to start a community they might actually do something to generate interest, nobody wants to put the effort in to build up a community that the mod can just ban them from or they look and go “Its not that theres nothing, theres just no interest.”
[email protected] baby. Does reddit have that? No. Didn’t think so! ;)
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Oh my God what terrible thing to Reddit happened in February
If you don’t know, Reddit updated their interface in February and made it worse by doing so. People who tolerated the older “new” interface can find a way to use that (at new.reddit) while the older interface is still there too (old.reddit).
Still, it seems like Reddit keeps making changes to drive away their older user base which hypothetically is drawing in new users (otherwise it seems a bit silly for them to be doing those changes).
The IPO announcement w/ shares being offered to Reddit users. Also, the deal with AI training off of user data without consent. Hard to keep track these days lol.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see another boom in active users and new accounts due to that. Just depends on how much this pushes users who were already annoyed over api changes over the edge.
Reddit can’t help but treat their mods and user base like absolute shit. So while it may not be much, there will be a slow and steady drip of users over time.
It seems more like there are infusions into Lemmy when Reddit makes some kind of change, and there’s a slow drip out of Lemmy
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Fuck you
Global degrees sucks. Stay away.
I’m doing my part!
Doing my part!
My internet experience has been slower since switching to Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin. And it’s so nice. The things I see are more interesting. The conversations are usually more well thought out. And lowest common denominator dopamine content isn’t being driven into my eyeballs by Algorithms. I’ve legitimately been happier since the Reddit API debacle.
Long live the Old Internet.
Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!
Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!
56K modem handshake sound intensifies
Now give us EverQuest for that proper 1999 experience!
Ever try Project 1999?
^^^^^
AFAIK, V0.19 adds anyone that votes to MAU instead of just commenters and posters, so any server thats converted is reporting better #s. With Lemmy.world now on 0.19, expect this to be even sharper.
The fediverse is growth hacking, nice.
What is MAU?
Monthly Active Users
What is MAU?
This is a wrong answer, but this song is what I always think of when I see ‘MAU’.
Well, that’s in my head now.
Seriously, right? Every freaking time someone mentions the term MAU that starts playing in my head.
adds anyone that votes to MAU instead of just commenters and posters
That seems fair. They’re interacting with Lemmy, so they’re using Lemmy, and should be counted.
According to: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=270 the monthly active users are still in decline… even if we take into account the new way of counting active users, the previous bump comes from v0.19 being added to other servers
Speculation on this graph alone, I would say that students being off/people avoiding family gave the bump in December. And I’d expect another bump in May/June as Summer starts
I just joined today! So far really enjoying it.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
reddit may have better subs, but here it’s 99% less bots and shills
I love it! So much comfy vibes here
I just came back today! Never did anything before but just subscribed to like 100 sublemmies? Is that the right word lmao?
100 sublemmies? Is that the right word lmao?
no it isn’t, they’re called communities
Nah I read the official documentation they’re definitely sublemmies
There are many sublime sublemmies
I read two posts in the morning
I read two posts at night
I read two posts in the afternoon
It makes me feel alright
I read two posts in time of peace, and two in time of war
I read two posts before I read two posts, and then I read two more
Welcome back!
Sublemmies, I like it
I remember people whining that lemmy is on its decline already. We are back and here to stay
(Edit typo)
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Yeah it’s weird to act like people were being unreasonable for pointing out that Lemmy was on a decline when the numbers quite literally showed a decline.
And it’s worth noting, no matter what the numbers say, the if users come here and it doesn’t feel as active as the numbers suggest, that’s still an issue.
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I don’t think that initial peak was ever “real” anyway. I think it was due to people creating multiple accounts on different instances (or maybe even claiming multiple usernames on the same instance) before settling down with the one account they were actually going to consistently use.
There are definitely people that bounced off Lemmy for whatever reason. No idea how many though, I myself had 4 accounts on various instances before I settled on this one.
Definitely at least part of it was people who came to try it out and left (back to Reddit or wherever).
And your case too. I also did it. But we’d be 100% speculating if either of us guessed which was more common and how much.
Yeah that’s me. I signed up for and used beehaw for a month before switching to my current lemmy.ca. My old account would definitely be counted the same way as someone who signed up, got bored and left
Don’t wanna do the ‘ackshually’ thing but it’s a little confusing so, I think you meant whining?
Thanks. I edited it because I sea it’s confusing (different from the typo in this comment)
I think Lemmy is a good foothold for activitypub. Reddit has been going to shit for some time and their userbase is tech savvy enough to actually migrate to something like Lemmy in significant enough numbers for it to matter.
I can only hope it continues to grow like this
Very Nice! - Borat
Lets be fair, Steve Huffman did most of the work to make Lemmy so popular.
Shout out to the old r/jailbait mod for making in happen!
