Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is an issue with Lemmy too. Searching for a community by keyword ranks the results list by subscribers not by MAUs

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Piefed 1.2 will fix this.

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    • hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait. We get pie?

      Where do I claim said pie?

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No that’s not how this works. You get free pie by agreeing to the ToS that agreed to being forced-fed said pie. 👀

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I need to make the switch

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      • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Piefed is awesome. I really like Scheduled Posts, as well as Feeds (which are collections of communities). There are only a couple reasons why keep my lemmy.world account: uploading images in comments is difficult in piefed, and I don't think piefed supports custom preview for youtube videos yet. But I imagine those will be fixed at some point in the near future.

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      • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you switch? Is it a different app? I’m using boost atm for Lemmy

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      • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I highly recommend it. I daily crust because I don't mind if something breaks and I figure it's probably useful having a few people consistently using it so they can alert devs if something is fucked.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sort by “Top-Month”

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Subscriber count is also used in fields that cannot be sorted (e.g. when searching for a community for cross-posting).

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.

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  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    to be fair, a minority of video creators (and nearly no subreddits) have very long or sporadic upload schedules, which would make the MAU metric be weird bursts. MAU works for regular content which Reddit pretty much always is while only the top YouTube creators do that.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Weekly active users here.

      Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So for a channel that releases like 10 videos a year?

        Tbh I could probably think of something but really what is even the point in it? Like it doesn’t even matter to me how many people are watching a youtube video. At least a community on lemmy the active users are the people you are talking to. But watching a video is the same with 1 or 1B views.

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      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Weekly would make the problem even worse.

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  • InvestBurnout@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought they already are doing that?

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.

      And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that.

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      • InvestBurnout@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was thinking of the drop in views that some creators are reporting... not subscribers. My bad!

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel's sub count.

    Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they're a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, you can infer it.

      But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, just give users ALL the data. Boom "problem" solved.

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• cm0002@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy has this problem too, its why many think .ml has all these huge comms, but thankfully by MAUs, only like Linux and Privacy are top

  (What's the problem with Lemmy.ml?

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