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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't half still like 50 million users? It's not nothing

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't get these articles. Most users don't stick around on a platform, but if enough do and form a critical mass, it'll succeed.

[–] ronalicious 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda. Lemmy doesn't have anywhere near 50 million users, but the thousands we do have is enough to keep the community churning away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus the bots help. Bots posting things from news organizations and taking from Reddit help this place have content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not a fan of the bots - they spam the same link across a bunch of communities.

I'd much prefer real engagement, but I can block them, so that's fine, I guess.

[–] ronalicious 4 points 1 year ago

I am here for it!

[–] CluckN 5 points 1 year ago

Those users who dropped $100 for Sync should at least stick around:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed it on all social media sites; this desire to talk down about the other platforms and reinforce why yours is the best. Which in part, I get it. If you really liked Twitter you wouldn’t necessarily be hanging out here, but these articles are definitely weird. It’s like following your ex just so you can tell yourself you’re better off now.

[–] Cabrio 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Engagement is down to 6 minutes per user per day down from 21 minutes at launch.

For perspective Twitter is at 34.8 minutes per user per day.

[–] Speculater 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] TeaHands 7 points 1 year ago

I am definitely bumping that stat up singlehandedly by an unhealthy amount.

[–] Cabrio 5 points 1 year ago

Me too, I looked around but it doesn't seem like lemmy tracks that metric, or if they do they haven't released it, the best I found was a posts per hour graph from 2 months ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Username checks out ^(sorry for the redditism 🙈)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy isn't here to sell ads so I hope we never have to find out.