lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
seems to make sense on the surface. inactive users are kind of a useless metric.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks 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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Weekly active users here.
Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Weekly would make the problem even worse.
InvestBurnout@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I thought they already are doing that?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
InvestBurnout@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I was thinking of the drop in views that some creators are reporting... not subscribers. My bad!
palordrolap@fedia.io 3 weeks 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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, you can infer it.
But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
To be fair, just give users ALL the data. Boom "problem" solved.
cm0002@piefed.world 3 weeks 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
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is an issue with Lemmy too. Searching for a community by keyword ranks the results list by subscribers not by MAUs
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Piefed 1.2 will fix this.
hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait. We get pie?
Where do I claim said pie?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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. 👀
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I need to make the switch
Sergio@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
CybranM@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
How do you switch? Is it a different app? I’m using boost atm for Lemmy
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sort by “Top-Month”
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Subscriber count is also used in fields that cannot be sorted (e.g. when searching for a community for cross-posting).