Blaze (he/him)

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: January 16th, 2024
  • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.ziptoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•The whole point of the fediverse is to spread outEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Bigger isn’t always better. I stand by that.

    Let me show you what is the reality of building a community day after day

    !fruit@slrpnk.net is approaching an all-time high for MAU, and someone else finally made a post!

    https://slrpnk.net/comment/18245881 ( @wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net FYI)

    That MAU is 86 users per month. That user has been building that community for over 6 months for someone else to finally make a post.

    That’s the reality people who build communities are faced with. Waiting months for someone else to show up.

    And in this case, he was lucky, because that person showed on their community, not on !religiousfruitcake@lemy.lol or any other potential instance.

    Building a community takes a lot of time and energy. So indeed, it can be frustrating to see that there is another community, on exactly the same topics, where the rules are the same, which could be consolidated so that the sparse activity is shared by two people instead of one.

    “Shouting into the void” has been a phenomenon known for years: https://lemmy.zip/post/14347368

    It is known to discourage people

    I’m kind of giving up. When I came over during the Reddit APIpocolypse, I tried to post as much as I could. My posts here don’t get much engagement, and only seem to reach a small audience, so it doesn’t feel like it’s worth the effort.

    I still try to post and comment, but it feels like a slog sometimes.

    https://lemmy.zip/u/sbv@sh.itjust.works

    Rereading that thread now, actually the idea of consolidation was already there back then

    I think part of the issue is there’s multiple communities on different instances for the same topic. I’m subscribed to like 4 different movie communities. If we all just stuck to one, maybe there would be better engagement?

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/8837482

    And then people just leave

    I don’t mind the slower nature of lemmy. I like how quiet it is compared to the karma farming spam bot hell reddit was.

    Last comment 8 months ago.

    Let’s not forget that the platform activity is decreasing. We had 46k monthly active users on the 29th of June, we are now at 37k https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

    And Piefed only has 1800 monthly active users, so it’s not like people massively left for there https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

    So yeah, bigger is not always better, but in most of the cases around here, it’s not about being bigger, it’s just about being big enough for the community to survive.

  • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.ziptoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•The whole point of the fediverse is to spread outEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This data is 2 years old, so things have evolved since then, but at the time LW and ml were the only instances with communities with more than 10k monthly active users: https://lemmy.world/post/13059576 , and LW was the only one with a 20k MAU community.

    Unfortunately there isn’t any new data about the concentration, otherwise we would be able to have the data.

    then Lemmy.world has 45 of them. So it’s a bit better when you go down.

    There’s probably another effect is that even more down, then it’s mostly LW communities.

    Lemmy.world has got a plurality of 1K/mo Lemmy communities. (122 vs 140) Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml together make a majority of 1K/mo Lemmy communities (152)