How is the size of Lemmy’s userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven’t seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I think admins curating the feed is… Interesting but also kind of dangerous

    just letting the admins set defaults would be better than forcing these choices upon their users, which I think is was the above user was suggesting, which is kinda what Reddit does with having default subs

    The active sort still showing 2 days old posts is not ideal.

    why not? if they’re getting new comments then they’re still active

    Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score [of the post] and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

    it’s like something inbetween Hot and classic forums-style sorting (New Comments sort in Lemmy)

    but I do not think that should be the default sort method, instance admins can already adjust what the default sort method is