So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: https://i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png
This can seem a bit sad at a first glance. Where are we heading? But one has to remember that back during the summer many of us created several accounts to settle at an instance, there were also problems with spam-bots of various kinds.
So active users in itself is actually not that interesting. At least not the comparison with the peak. Instead we can watch the total amount of posts, how is that looking?
Well it’s steadily going up actually: https://i.imgur.com/i3Vse7Y.png
Though the increase has gone down slightly. This number however is influenced by other parameters as well. There are several reposts bots and such that mass-post to different instances. But it’s definitley a good tell it’s not going down.
Another interesting factor is comments: https://imgur.com/hWT8xvF
The amount of comments per month has gone down, but not by all that much. A 10% decrease from the top or so. What’s interesting here is that the decline has plateaued, which could indicate that the userbase has settled and become somewhat consistent. This is great news.
All in all, it seems like Lemmy has settled into a rather comfortable spot, with a decent amount of users, posts and comments. That is very slightly decreasing. Ideally we’d like to see this trend reverse, and perhaps that might happen naturally with due time when things have settled even more. For Lemmy I’d reckon the growth will look a bit like this. Whenever Reddit does something horrific (and it will happen more), we’ll see a mass-exodus with more users over here. Then it’ll decrease for a bit, settle and hopefully we can rinse and repeat. Anyway - that’s some irrelevant thoughts from me on the subject.
Just wanted to post these rather good statistics!
The arrival of Boost for Lemmy did it for me. So now it’s a case of stumbling around and finding the communities I like, and beginning to post, and that always takes a little while.
Welcome, Dave.
Dave’s a beast!!
Everyone knows Dave!
Dave’s not here.
Yes, but only on Tuesdays, 4 to 6pm. Don’t want to steal the limelight, there’s room for everyone.
I wish the app logo was slightly different so I can differentiate Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy. I’ve turned off app names on the launcher years ago and it has never been an issue since every app is different, except for Boost.
it’s too bad the stock launcher on android doesn’t let you change app logos. you can do it using most 3rd party launchers, but that’s probably not worth it for that one feature
I think the Nova launcher allows you to have custom icons on their free version.
Is there any point having boost for reddit still installed?
It’s still my primary app for Reddit.
But isn’t it shutdown? That’s what the boost subreddit says and it isn’t available on the playstore anymore, did they implement some way for people to pay the api fees directly?
It wasn’t shut down, it was just abandoned. Furthermore, the app store won’t forcibly uninstall an app on your phone just because it was removed from the store.
Whilst the pinned post says it will stop working after the API change, every other post is talking about how it’s working, new bugs that have appeared as Reddit is changing their API, and others about how they chosen the wrong method to keep it working.
I don’t visit the sub but since i was interested because of what you said, I’ve found someone say practically the same thing as I did here. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/16upao5/comment/k2pp0ae
I don’t know what the developer did exactly to keep it working. After the API change there was 2-3 updates within the first few weeks, and then I assume they removed the app from the store.