How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven't seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

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[–] jeffw 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, I’m just here to sit in my armchair and judge other people’s design choices.

But on a serious note, I wouldn’t even know how. I barely played around in R but the only semi-legit data viz stuff I ever did was in Tableau. And that was only with static data

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Not super tricky, they're using ChartJS and with some very minimal tweaks to the config (aka changing "pie" to "bar") the data would look like this!

edit: does look a bit awkward due to the huge difference in values. A logarithmic scale would look better, but is much more confusing.

[–] jeffw 5 points 7 months ago

Still look less awkward than pie charts. And yeah, I wouldn’t use a log scale for a viz unless it’s going into a professional publication

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

OMG, Pareto analysis… so sexy.