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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Super, super impressive.

Most web apps, especially social media - get that peak and then have this huge falloff (see Threads for a particularly grisly example). Lemmy seems really good at keeping its user base.

It reminds me that I need to contribute posts more often myself. I’m think the only reason I ever go back to reddit is that it has some specialized subs we just don’t have here yet. But sometimes you have to start posting to an audience of 0 to get things going.

[–] threelonmusketeers 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the only reason I ever go back to reddit is that it has some specialized subs we just don’t have here yet. But sometimes you have to start posting to an audience of 0 to get things going.

Same. I've had some success with starting or reviving communities just by posting and commenting regularly, interspersed with a few cross-posts to related communities. Be the change you want to see in the world, and I hope more users will come!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a big hurdle is the way you have to type out cross posts. There was just something elegant about Reddits solution: /r/subreddit.

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 8 months ago

I feel like a big hurdle is the way you have to type out cross posts.

What typing are you referring to? I just click the cross-post button, which seems to do most of the work of filling in the title and URL fields, quoting the body text, etc.

I do wish that cross-posts were more embedded though, like Reddit cross-posts. It currently seems that if the original post is edited, these changes to not propagate to any cross-posts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have not been paying attention to threads and so I gave it a quick google. It seems that threads is doing just fine, with 130 million monthly users now.

Where should I be looking for the grisly stats?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I’m pretty sure that 130 million monthly users was the absolute peak, which lasted for all of about 5 days.

See:

https://www.similarweb.com/amp/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads-first-month/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That’s old data. Threads suffered for a month but was fine. This is more recent. 141 million MAU https://famewall.io/statistics/threads-stats/