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I was pleased to see Lemmy get a shout out in the Verge’s recent “Case for the Fediverse” article. I wonder if it attracted anyone new.
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I mean, a lot of folks got reminded about Reddit fuckery via the Reddit Recap which heavily featured news about the API boondoggle.
So, I wonder how many people were like “Yeah, I forgot to leave.”
Pixelfed is underrated by the people.
A powerful photo sharing platform without the shity parts of instagram. Just the opposite of doomscrolling prevalent there
is kbin that small
More users is nice, but the real metric should be the quality of the content and discussions. And for me that’s the real winner with Lemmy.
Quality over quantity.
I just hope the platform will expand into more niche content over time. The big topics seem to be news, politics, and some specific tech subjects. Would love to see arts/crafts/hobby related stuff take hold here as well.
That said, I do think a lot of the discussion happening here is pretty high quality and the place does seem to be improving over time. Time will tell. Hopefully more people wake up to the fact that reddit is not gonna hold up on the long term. I expect them to go IPO crazy this coming year and I don’t think a lot of the core users are going to like it.
Okay but how do we quantitatively and unambiguously devise a metric for quality? More importantly, how do we come up with a satisfactory approximation to that metric? I’m open to ideas.
Quantity helps the quality in some important aspects though. For example we don’t have an equivalent to r/LegalAdvice or r/AskDocs because there isn’t large enough amount of people that are doctors/lawyers using Lemmy
Or AskHistorians. God I miss that sub.
But we do have an excess of Trekkies and Linux nerds!
It’s me, I’m the Trekkie Linux nerd.
I just shitpost that’s why my name is cum
Calculation for MAU changed so the old MAU and the new MAU cant really compared
old one used to include commenters and posters while the new one has that and also voters
both are missing people who dont do any of these three actions thoughPeople who don’t do any of those actions are not active users. Lurkers are not active by definition.
They shouldn’t be included in the active user count, because they’re not contributing any activity.
It depends on what is being called activity
The standard (I say standard but its really just the thing most sites use since it boosts their numbers) that social media uses for monthly active users is to do people who have logged in. This is what mastodon uses as well
While they aren’t actively contributing content they are still actively using the site (active account as opposed to dead account)
I think lemmy should match up to the mastodon and other social media calculations so these comparisons actually make sense otherwise were just making lemmy feel dead by calling a different calculation MAU than what people are used to and since both calculations are being compared like they’re equal
It’d be hard to track lurkers on federated platforms though
For communities yes due to cross instance stats but for instances themselves (which the stats above is based on) no. You can just use post read times in addition to the three which will catch anyone who has read a post. Post reads are something each instance has access to for its users so it can do the unread comments feature but it doesn’t federate (but each instance self reports stats on itself).
Neat, good to know that there’s a mechanism, would there be a way for these statisticians to get this information? Or would it have to be self-reported?
Self reported, no public way to get post reads, its just in the db
Yeah there was no rise in the number of servers, you might say that theoretically it means nothing but in practice i don’t think i ever saw these two metrics not correlate.
We’re already that close to Mastodon in user count? Wack
2% of active users vs 18% for Mastodon though. I’m impressed by Mastodon’s percentage, how comes?
alien.top has registered 1.18M users, but pretty much all of them are (still) bots and not count as active.
Servers that mirror Twitter users (like bird.makeup) would don’t inflate Mastodon user count because it reports itself as a different software.
Where did those numbers come from? MAU/users ismore like 25%?
From the image in op.
OK, but what arithmetic?
1.7/9.6 = 0.18
0.05/2.1 = 0.02Oh you’re right, I read that as 490,000, sorry. Thanks
I know the first two icons (Mastadon and Lemmy), but what are the other ones?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Look at the picture chart
Pixelfed n peertube
