I’m new here on Lemmy.

When looking at the different communities, I get really surprised at how few people are using it. For instance, the ProCreate community says 4 / users per month. Does that mean only 4 people are being active? Or have I misunderstood?

Thank you in advance!

    • ZelladoreOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      Okay thank you. I’m just surprised that it’s so few!

        • Ph03n1x443
          8·
          2 years ago

          Yeah that’s been my take too. Honestly, minus missing more OC, I like Lemmy a lot. It’s definitely starting to hit that Reddit-like feel to it

          • Crackhappy
            6·
            2 years ago

            This is exactly how Reddit felt before the great Digg exodus.

          • Shialac
            8·
            2 years ago

            Yep… I still think the “Powerusers” - Mods and actually active Posters, creators of original content - were the ones most likely to use 3rd Party Apps and thus have left Reddit after all the shit that has happened

            I noticed a huge drop in Quality in the last 2 Days on Reddit (and a rise of Alt-Right bs), lets see how it develops

            For now I feel really comfortable here on Lemmy

        • ZelladoreOP
          1·
          2 years ago

          I get that. I hope you’re right so we can get bigger but fewer communities about the same topic

    • Thurstylark@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 years ago

      Do votes count as activity?

      Personally, I would consider that too lurker-y to count, but I could see both sides of that particular argument.

      Then again, I could get off my ass and go read the fuckin code… Is my reddit refugee showing?? :P

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zip
        5·
        2 years ago

        I don’t think they do, I see a lot of communities where there are more votes on a lot of posts than the active users count.

  • Andreas@feddit.dk
    121·
    2 years ago

    Adding on to what everyone else has said, the “Users per month” counter counts only the users on your home instance (the instance you created your account on) who have posted or commented in the subreddit this month. The total number of active users across all instances can be seen when you view the community from its home instance.

      • Andreas@feddit.dk
        2·
        2 years ago

        It could be that bigger instances consider syncing the aggregates to be a low priority task, because the user counts on my instances (100-300 users) are much lower than the counts on the original instances.

  • Skelectus@suppo.fi
    101·
    2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure it means the number of users that have posted or commented during the past 30 days.

    • DrQuint
      7·
      2 years ago

      I can confirm this but only empirically, as I know of a community where only like 4 people actually commented, but I know at least a few dozen looked at.

  • dreadedsemi
    3·
    2 years ago

    Few people isn’t so bad. Common problem on Reddit was when a cool subreddit grows and immediately goes downhill.

    • ZelladoreOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s true. It’s gonna take some getting used to, I was hoping to see something similar to r/ProCreate with hundreds of posts with arts and tutorials. But it will probably grow over the next months :)