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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Than you for your posts on [email protected] by the way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, trying to jeep them active ha ha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

trying to jeep them active

[email protected] :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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