Why do the graphs look so weird?
Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?
admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 6 months ago
Have a look here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fuck me, pie charts with 50 segments??? Maybe they look weird because pie charts suck if you have more than 2-3 things to show
And the rest on the page don’t display well on mobile
admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 6 months ago
Youre right - feel free to make and share a better Version. I think the community appreciates forks and contributions :)
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, I’m just here to sit in my armchair and judge other people’s design choices.
But on a serious note, I wouldn’t even know how. I barely played around in R but the only semi-legit data viz stuff I ever did was in Tableau. And that was only with static data
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
It just gives current stats, not historical trends. I don’t think it is any answer to OPs question.
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
If you scroll down it does give historical trends on comments, posts, monthly active users, etc.
What I meant is why do the graphs look so janky.
For example:
What happened in October 2023 that made so many users join?
and
What happened in March 2024 that made so many people stop posting?
seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sept/Oct '23 was the Boost reddit mobile client release.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 6 months ago
0.19 counts active users differently; prior to 0.19, the count is only if the user posted, after 0.19, all interactions results in the user being counted as an active user. This inflated the active users hugely as all lurkers are counted.
The active users is dwindling. You can see the steep drop off prior to the change and a slow but continued decline after the update.
I do not know the reason for the number of posts falling off, but that doesn’t look healthy either to be honest.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Thanks for the post. Something on my browser only shows the pie charts and doesn’t let me scroll down.
admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 6 months ago
I mean there is a a graph about active users over the last months, so I would argue it does regarding user activity?
darakan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
So basically, had a massive spike during the reddit blackout in July last year. Dropped down to half by November and has since shown fairly steady (if measured) growth. I think that’s a good sign.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 months ago
What just happened to the number of servers? Did the admins just decide they want to go with quality over quantity?
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Probably lots of people trying to start another general instance that didn’t draw any users and then deciding to shut it down. FWIW I think we have instances enough (from a users point of view, I don’t think it matters much whether there are 100 or 1000 instances). We could be spread over the instances more evenly though.
filister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I didn’t know there were almost as many Germans as Americans, the majority of Reddit users were Americans which has created Americocentric perspective on a lot of topics which from a European perspective was quite annoying.
waldek@lemmy.86thumbs.net 6 months ago
I did not verify my thoughts but I think this could be because ovh has big datacenters in Germany and quite a lot of Europeans use ovh.
maegul@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
fediverse had a strong european presence before the reddit migration too. The Mastodon lead-dev/founder, for instance, is German. And European governments have been far more interested in running their own instances on the fediverse than any other country AFAICT (to the point that I’ve seen it confuse North-American admins).
narp@feddit.de 6 months ago
I think one of the Lemmy devs is German too
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yeah open source seems to be a big thing in Germany specifically for some reason