• realbaconator@lemmy.world
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    Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I’m liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.

    • HoagieBoy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’ll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let’s enjoy the ride.

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      1 year ago

      Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast

      Self-hosting a Lemmy instance is cheap and easy! I know someone running one off a $5/mo Linode server. You should give it a shot!

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    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

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      1 year ago

      But the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth

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        Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.

    • darkstar@sh.itjust.works
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      True, I have 9 accounts so far between instances… I don’t think I’ll make anymore I’m quite comfortable now, but yeah, I inflated the stats. Sorry…

  • d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.world
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    I’m enjoying it so much more with the app development. Devs trying to accomplish the goal of instilling the feeling of Apollo for us refugees coming. I just needed useful communities, with posts that people reply to with more and more information. Reddit still defeats lemmy there but I’m hoping it changes a bit.

  • itadakimasu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yet it feels like an echo chamber. My local community I created had 3-4 posts per day until 2 days ago. Now zero people are posting lol

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    It shows 50,000 active users per day compared to 2,500,000 total users per day. Most of the difference, presumably, is dormant bot accounts. If they were all activated and started posting one day, they could probably bring the network down.

    I’m confused though by the active comments per day being about 100 times the active users per day. Surely users are not commenting 100 times per day on average. Is there something wrong with how the comments are being counted?

    The posts count also looks a bit odd, since it means active users are making more than 10 posts a day on average. That seems implausibly high.

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      “average user posts 100 times per day" actualy just statistical error. average user posts 0 times per day. Feddi Georg, who lives in cave & posts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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        It’s still an average. The mean average precisely. The modal average is most likely zero but the median average is probably greater than zero.

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.world
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      Yeah this is a good point.

      It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.

      • (´。• ᵕ •。`)@lemmy.ml
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        A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days

        From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.

        An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."

        https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

    • Victor Gnarly@lemmy.worldOP
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      Agreed, I know there’s arguments about bots and such in this thread but this is all good news. If we have these problems, it means we’re doing something right.