I've been thinking of hosting my own instance for myself, but I was wondering if you'd noticed any oddities! I've heard of some bugs that occur when interacting cross-instance. Also stuff about content being out of sync, which I notice currently with lemmy.ml from my current instance (lemmy.world).
So actually, it looks like the active users percentage went up starting the beginning of June, precipitously dropping when the bot farming began. That's where I get the pre-bot-farming number of 0.186 from.
It could be that user participation dropped at the same time as the bot farming, but it seems to me that all the new users have been posting a lot (myself included).
^^^ From the stats website: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Why thank you! :D
That's a good question. I don't know, but I figure people using Pixelfed might not generally be the target audience for what I'm sharing on Lemmy. But that's just personal preference I guess?
I haven't used Pixelfed before either! It seems a lot like Instagram, basically?
Nice!
Figure I'll update under your comment.
I spent some time looking and found that Pixelfed and Peertube are recommended. Turns out there's a pixelfed.social which seems good as long as you make your posts unlisted and keep yourself off the public directory (unless you want that).
You can find an option not to hide NSFW content in your profile settings!
If you sort by New on All you're guaranteed to come across porn.
Can't overstate how psyched I am for this T_T
Damn. An allegory for so much in life.
Ha! :D Honored to be the inaugurating post of that community
I agree, based on these statistics. Prior to the obvious jump in bot-farmed accounts, there were about 162000 active users with an active user proportion of about 0.186 (somewhere around >29000 active users).
Now there are 649k lemmy users and an active user proportion of 0.055 (~35600 according to the dashboard). If we assume those 35600 users represent the pre-bot-farming ratio of 0.186, we get 35600/0.186 or about just over 191000.
That's still an increase of probably 30k true users, unless the proportion of lurkers have also suddenly drastically increased. I don't think that's true, because, pre-bot-farming, when the user base started growing with the Reddit debacle, the proportion of active users increased accordingly. I assume that's because new users are excited to help grow the community.
Still, in the past two days alone active users went up by over 5k (15%). Maybe that'll continue exponentially, and there'll be 95k (500k total non-bot) users two weeks from now, or maybe it'll continue linearly and there'll be 70k (~385k) users.
I don't know why I spent so long thinking about this.
I don't doubt there's a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.
Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.
I really like Japanese with Shun (on Spotify, I don't know about other platforms?) and also Comprehensible Japanese (here on youtube) which has lots of free content, also a dedicated site with extra material for Patreon supporters.
Shun's good cause he speaks slow enough without being annoying, and enunciates quite well.
Basically the same for Comprehensible Japanese! Though these are extra nice since there's an extra modality (namely video) which she uses so that you can continue listening with context.