It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?

  • QubaXR@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Yes! I think we have many communities that are either:

    • way too specific
    • carbon copies of identical topic on another instance
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      1 year ago

      Carbon copies are actually quite of an issue on the long term. It is difficult to understand the best one for a topic unless one visits many of them.

      Also because the number of subscriptions that one sees is only from their instance

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        1 year ago

        As someone who mostly lurks/occasionally comments and someone who likes to view hot/active posts from all communities, repeat posts from similar communities in different instances is something I find really annoying. I’ll see the same post four or five times as I scroll. It can make things feel really empty to see the same things more than once.

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        1 year ago

        Also because the number of subscriptions that one sees is only from their instance

        Huh is that actually a thing? That’s kinda dumb, but explains the tiny numbers I’ve seen a few times.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, unfortunately that is a thing. Example:

          https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] (lemmy.sdf.org’s local view of Collapse @ lemmy.ml) shows 22 subscribers. In effect, this is the number of people on lemmy.sdf.org who have subscribed to this remote community.

          https://lemmy.ml/c/collapse (the original/direct view of Collapse @ lemmy.ml) shows 2.11k subscribers. I don’t know whether this number shows only subscribers from lemmy.ml or an aggregate of all subscribers across the fediverse.

          Unfortunately, another issue even if the count on the direct link to the community is an aggregate, is that it’s probably not counting people who are stuck in a “subscribe pending” state. A ton of the communities I subscribed to weeks ago still show in this state on my communities page. I understand that what this means is that I’m subscribed on my end so that everything works for me, but the original community hasn’t acknowledged my subscription, so I expect that this means it also doesn’t count me as a subscriber.

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            1 year ago

            Ahh interesting. Well, that’s growing pains, and fairly minor ones I’d say. Let’s hope it’ll eventually get better.

            Also thanks for explaining “subscribe pending”, I was wondering about that.

            • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org
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              1 year ago

              For sure. The growing pains haven’t been too bad for me either. I think that things will definitely get better with Lemmy.

              You’re welcome.