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[–] 61 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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/

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