• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    Damn, 40k monthly active users on lemmy? That’s much less than I expected. And the number’s dropping.

    Well, at least for me, there’s no going back to reddit.

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      Monthly active users are an important metric for companies trying to sell advertising. It’s less important for a community based application where profits are irrelevant. What is more important is how valuable the content is to you, and if it’s not, you can put in an effort to provide content you, and others, find valuable.

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        Although less important in other places, knowing that there probably about 400 people sharing most of the content (1% of 40k), is still important.

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        I think a negative trend is really important… if we are shrinking we are shrinking. Content will decline if the trend isn’t reversed.

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      I wouldnt be surprised if much of the extremism on lemmy puts a lot of users off, tbh. Ive been seeing more and more remarks about it.

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        Extremism? I’ve found it to be much less extreme than says /r/europe or /r/conservative

        What kind of extremism are you talking about?

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          Yeah. I guess it will vary from instance to instance, but from my personal experience, viewing “All” on Lmemy isn’t noticeably more political than /r/all. There’s maybe less diversity in the stories, and more memes, but still. It’s not bad.

          Reddit has absolutely been way worse at times, by the way. When T_D was allowed to run roughshod over the front page, and spez bent over backwards to not ban them despite clearly being a nuisance and breaking the rules.