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!

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[–] admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 1 points 2 years ago

Have a look here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think quantity is necessarily the most interesting metric. Quality of discussion and other users is more interesting to me and it has been quite good so far for the communities I frequent.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, the communities I'm interested in are getting more active in a way that seems sustainable (as opposed to last year, when it was a always a single person posting some, getting no responses, and leaving). I'm pretty positive about the state of Lemmy and the wider threadiverse.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. It might be that the overall number of Lemmy users may be shrinking, but some of the communities I'm in are getting to a more sustainable level of activeness compared to automn.

[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Than you for your posts on !avatar@lemmy.world by the way

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks to you too! I see you in a lot of communities lol

[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, trying to jeep them active ha ha

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

trying to jeep them active

!jeep@lemmy.world :)

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think posting is probably the biggest thing you can do to grow the community. That and word of mouth - tell people about the fediverse.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

at this point I think we might need comments more than posts, there's lots of posts already but most of them are lacking comments