Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good
Minotaur@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Super, super impressive.
Most web apps, especially social media - get that peak and then have this huge falloff (see Threads for a particularly grisly example). Lemmy seems really good at keeping its user base.
It reminds me that I need to contribute posts more often myself. I’m think the only reason I ever go back to reddit is that it has some specialized subs we just don’t have here yet. But sometimes you have to start posting to an audience of 0 to get things going.
eating3645@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Minotaur@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m pretty sure that 130 million monthly users was the absolute peak.
See:
dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
That’s old data. Threads suffered for a month but was fine. This is more recent. 141 million MAU famewall.io/statistics/threads-stats/
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Same. I’ve had some success with starting or reviving communities just by posting and commenting regularly, interspersed with a few cross-posts to related communities. Be the change you want to see in the world, and I hope more users will come!
Huschke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I feel like a big hurdle is the way you have to type out cross posts. There was just something elegant about Reddits solution: /r/subreddit.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What typing are you referring to? I just click the cross-post button, which seems to do most of the work of filling in the title and URL fields, quoting the body text, etc.
I do wish that cross-posts were more embedded though, like Reddit cross-posts. It currently seems that if the original post is edited, these changes to not propagate to any cross-posts.