Is there stats somewhere that show how much the fediverse or lemmy have grown over a certain period of time? I find it interesting that though these platforms do seem relatively popular ( especially recently ) That the number of posts in certain communities is still pretty low and the number of comments even on popular threads is rather low.

  • drascus@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That’s interesting 🤔 I wonder if something about the federated nature makes active users difficult to count accurately. I wouldn’t say that Lemmy is a ghost town but there isn’t as much participation as their could be. I’m not even sure how the stats define active to be honest. So there is a lot of unknowns about how that calculation is done.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Hopefully participation will increase as the software improves. Totally understandable if people are frustrated by the current state of the platform and not really participating too much, but hopefully they are still lurking around, ready to jump in when things are patched up.

      Sh.itjust.works is one of the more active instances for its size, but we can do even better.

      • drascus@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        So yeah I just want to show what I am talking about something is completely weird. So if you are on a sh.itjust.works instance and view a community outside this one you see this :

        Now here is the same block not logged into an instance:

        See the stats are completely different. This is maddeningly confusing. They need to fix the stats overall. I am not sure that any place collecting stats could be right at this point.

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, it’s been that way the whole time. What you unfortunately need to do is use a third party tool to find/examine communities. Then join the ones you want and ignore the stats at the top because they’re dead wrong.

          https://lemmyverse.net/communities

          Btw y’all newbies have it easy, back in my day (2 weeks ago), we had to use this one

          https://browse.feddit.de/

          Which is fine but you can see how things are improving rapidly.

          To clarify your concerns, I don’t believe the issue is with the local tracking of stats, but rather with the stats getting uploaded from each server to the rest of the fediverse. If you check our local communities, the stats all seem accurate, at least for me.