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I mean, I'm glad we're growing here, but... (dubvee.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/memes
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...sometimes it does feel like this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How do you see the past numbers there though, without conflating the Mastodon users that says that we have ~1 million MAUs?

This one likewise says 43k MAUs right now, though I don't recall how many we had in February. The other site only shows as far back as June, 48k MAUs. So that's a drop of 5k MAUs since June.

Assuming the numbers are comparable across the two sites like that - and they seem to agree as far as we can tell - it looks like the numbers went up sometime between February and June, but since then we've lost almost all that we gained.

i.e., the Reddit drama may have caused people to come check us out, but then the largest majority of people left, likely going right back to Reddit. Possibly bc of the deep (niche) content stores that they still have - e.g. if everyone else uses Windows, it's just easier for you to use it too, and it takes a special mindset to buck that trend.:-)

[–] PugJesus 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The link should take you to the Lemmy page.

Some ~30% net MAU growth since December of last year is nothing to sniff at.

i.e., the Reddit drama may have caused people to come check us out, but then the largest majority of people left, likely going right back to Reddit. Possibly bc of the deep (niche) content stores that they still have - e.g. if everyone else uses Windows, it’s just easier for you to use it too, and it takes a special mindset to buck that trend.:-)

Most people who left from Reddit after The Great Exodus did so in the first 3-4 months, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, that longer view does change the narrative a bit. Yeah the Rexodus was the big influx, maybe if they finally kill off old-reddit there could be another but who knows. Then again in the OP it describes "growing", whereas the reality seems more like at one point almost a year ago we grew, especially that sharp spike between February and March, but ever since and currently we are actively shrinking. I guess both are true, depending on whether you take the yearly or half-yearly POV.

[–] PugJesus 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's definitely no explosive growth currently. Might be that some communities here are getting more 'solid', though, and feel more active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"More activity" rather than "more users" - yeah, not explosive but definitely growth I like how you phrased that. I think it means that niche interests are not more likely to happen - that needs more users in particular - but browsing here may be more enjoyable with the higher level of engagement.