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Starting up a new monthly post where I look at the communities in the instance to see how well all of them are doing

From this we should be able to see what communities are struggling so that they can be focused on for adding activity across the instance

My goal for december will be increasing the amount of communities that appear in the active and moderate sections and will compare to see the activity change then


For community activity levels im breaking this into 5 categories (note these stats are based on the new users/month stats in the instance)

  • Lively- 5k users/month or above
  • Active - 201-4999 users/month
  • Moderate - 51-200 users/month
  • Quiet - 11-50 users/month
  • Dead - 0-10

Communities in each category

  • Lively communities: 2 (1%)
  • Active communities: 11 (6%)
  • Moderate communities: 27 (15%)
  • Quiet communities: 45 (25%)
  • Dead communities: 92 (52%)

Most active communities


Least active communities

(These are ones that will be prioritized for making active) (theres a lot in the dead category so these are random ones from that, not all of them)


One other community that should be interesting to see the growth is the advent of code community as that is about to start

[email protected]

currently at 136 but I assume thats going to grow much larger

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It means that the alien.top users won’t be able to see the content posted by a plurality of users on lemmy instances

alien.top is still able to see content from LW.

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

I mixed that up. But it's not really better to have a significant portion of accounts not be able to see your posts or comments or be able to leave posts or comments on a large portion of the posts and comments.

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

A counterpoint would be: now that alien.top is not mirroring content anymore, LW now has no actual reason to keep it defederated, and the more "organic" users there, the more legitimate it becomes.

I was saying from the beginning that the accounts would eventually be taken over by their owners, now that this is starting to happen, do you think that is fair to penalize the instance because it was successful?

[–] antik 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing is happening on alien.top. Set if to 'local' and 'comments' and there is a handful of comments from the last hour and before that it was 13 days ago

'successful'

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