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It's still tiny numbers in the scheme of things, but also quite a big number for a site that had ~30 users this time last month.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For 30k monthly users some magazines that seem to be popular for most people (gaming, pcgaming) seem awfully dead

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Too much focus on Reddit drama threads and not enough on actual content (I am guilty of this too). I think as the drama passes it will liven up in the popular topics/magazines. Reddit needs to stop pulling the trigger on their foot gun first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's to be expected. Mastodon was dominated by Twitter discussions for quite a while before it tailed off

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

That’s a very fair point

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

That happened with digg back in the day. It will go away.

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

The vast majority of users on an aggregation site like this are just lurkers. Like, the vast, vast majority. Scroll, read, updoot, move on.

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

Well post something then lol. The individual communities on each instance may seem small but the posts should still be visible on all the federated sites in the verse.

[–] New_account 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It remains to be seen how many of the nearly 200K across kbin+lemmy stay active. A huge number of people will have created an account during the blackout with no intention of ever returning. They're still counted as active now (because they just created an account a few days ago), but they won't be considered active a month from now.

Unfortunately, unless we get more "normal" content over here, people will continue to go inactive. The only threads that really get any traction are the posts complaining about Reddit and the meta posts asking how everything works over here.

The real test will be July 1. For now, RIF/Apollo/etc. still work as they did for the past decade+, so people are still going to Reddit out of habit. Hopefully, the community here can grow enough in the next couple of weeks to appear viable to new users looking to transfer when their app of choice stops working.

[–] Confuzzeled 1 points 1 year ago

I'm going to post on some of the niche subreddits about lemmy and the fediverse up until the end of the month and then thats it. I'm hopeful if people stick with it it'll grow organically. Decentralisation is the only way to go.

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

tbf, there are more active communities that people might be going to on other instances