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Comment on [Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy

imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨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 😅

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antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As I said a bit lower in this thread, 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.

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- blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨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.
  
  That’s great
  
  But it might be a good thing to do this once, for all existing users.
  
  Probably a good idea with the note how to switch the default in the setting
  
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Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨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: discuss.tchncs.de/post/2410183

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- antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We changed the default view from “local” to “all” communities a few days ago.
  
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  - Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Interesting, hopefully new joiners won’t stumble directly upon communities that might push them away ha ha
    
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    antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Imagine joining that KS to boost and the first thing you see is “boost? Ewww go away, use Foss”
    
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gelberhut@lemdro.id ⁨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.

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- imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.
  
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  - gelberhut@lemdro.id ⁨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?
    
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    imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    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.
    
    You’re not wrong, but I don’t see why Lemmy would want to replicate reddit in that respect. You don’t need to spend any time on reddit or even make an account to take advantage of that functionality. You just Google your question and add reddit to the end and voila.
    
    Probably, can you give me example of such communities which are not about fedeverse, technology, foss or memes?
    
    I also skipped the gaming and political communities because there is an absolute boatload of that content on Lemmy, as I’m sure you’re aware. These are some communities that I am subscribed to that jumped out as being fairly active.
    
    !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works !woodworking@lemmy.ca !ukcasual@lemmy.world !trees@lemmy.world !thefarside@sh.itjust.works !solarpunk@slrpnk.net !showerthoughts@lemmy.world !moviesandtv@lemmy.film !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world !casualconversation@lemmy.world !imageai@sh.itjust.works !anime@lemmy.ml !futurama@lemmy.world !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
    
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    nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Fwiw, I’ve been consistently getting answers and solutions to my questions and issues on lemmy.
    
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨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!

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