Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is still all there, but it’s rising. :( That really makes me sad. How can we convince the mods there to move people here? Is it allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit or do we risk of being banned?

  • redcalcium
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    1 year ago

    If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.

    • @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      Makes sense, the people who have both the tech knowledge and conviction on the advantages of selfhosting, were probably the most active posters.

      • @Jackolantern
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        191 year ago

        The new subscribers are probably bots.

        • @Gladory
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          91 year ago

          100% how spez started out initially and made it appear that reddit had a lot of activity. So this definitely smells like spez-tricks

          • @Jackolantern
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            51 year ago

            Definitely. Inflating numbers for the sake of the upcoming IpO

    • @peregusOP
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      101 year ago

      Post per day seams steady at about 30/40, comment per day seams to have dropped from 3/400 to 250/300, I would have expected a great fall.

      • redcalcium
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        141 year ago

        If you compare post per days from before the strike, it definitely falls. It’s no longer an upward trajectory despite subscribers growth.

        • @x4740N
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I wouldnt be surprised if spez is bolstering subscriber numbers for larger subs with bot accounts

          • redcalcium
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            11 year ago

            If you look at the chart, pretty much nothing comparable to the same period last year. January 2023 is a lot higher than January 2022 for example. July 2023 is also higher than July 2022.

    • @DrQuint
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      11 year ago

      It’s interesting how Lemmy shows active users before subscribing. Even reddit shows “readers” (people currently online), but people hyperfocus on subscribers (which can be dead accounts).