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!

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    7 months ago

    I think posting is probably the biggest thing you can do to grow the community. That and word of mouth - tell people about the fediverse.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      38·
      7 months ago

      at this point I think we might need comments more than posts, there’s lots of posts already but most of them are lacking comments

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        7 months ago

        I think engagement is often driven when people see active communities though. Can’t have that without posts in communities. Sort of a chicken and egg thing ig.

        I post in some communities where I’m the only person posting for weeks and nobody comments. I post in others where I’m just a contributor and people engage in the comments.

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          I agree as well. If I just wanted a bunch news articles and images I could use RSS and Instagram Pixelfed. Comment discussion threads are the best part of platforms like Lemmy.