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We are currently around 50k monthly active users. What do you think could lead to the next newcomers wave? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few ideas from the top of my head

Flairs that can be allowed to filter content in a community
Major online communites (can be subreddits, or other communities) moving to Lemmy
Reddit removing old.reddit
Reddit banning people using VPNs (already happening, see [email protected] )
Lemmy becoming the reference source of knowledge for a certain domain

Second point is probably crucial, but I don't see any major subreddit wanting to move here. StarTrek is the exception more that the rule.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You have a good point.

Most of the people here despise sorting algorithms, and are fine with doing their own filtering, but to appeal to a wider audience, there should indeed be a way to suggest new joiners that they subscribe to a set of general communities that can be appealing to almost anyone. Of course experienced users can disable that, but that would definitely help.

By coincidence, I had to come up with a list of "active communities that are not memes, tech, news or politics", and here it is. It might be a starting point

Discussion:

Pictures:

[email protected]

Learning:

Entertainment:

Manual Hobbies

Art

[email protected]

Animals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I'll upvote you as per my support for you in another reply...

But I notice an animal community egregiously missing from your list... 😅

Edit: Just checked the rankings. How am I below bats, racoons, and possums??? I don't get these users sometimes! (kidding) But seriously, how are all of these above Dogs? I'd expect them to be up there with cats just do to, you know, they live in peoples' houses with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Edited 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

how are all of these above Dogs? I’d expect them to be up there with cats just do to, you know, they live in peoples’ houses with them.

Yes, I'm not a pet person but I was surprised too. Maybe dogs just have less active posters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I just looked at the stats quick and it's somewhat insightful.

Dogs has the most subs (3.4k), but only gets a post every 2-3 days, so not as many daily users (42).

Opossums has about half the subs (1.9k) , posts once or twice a day, and has over 500 daily users, which I don't know if I've ever gotten...great for them!

Bats and Raccoons fall in the middle of those numbers.

I'm killing it in total comments though and have more subs than all but Cats, which has an outstanding almost 18k. Out of 50k users, that is pretty dang impressive. I'd like to think at least a quarter of my subs are due to the work I put in, but I assume most of them came looking for a clone Reddit group.

Does any of it mean anything? Probably not. I'm glad to see them have a chance to shine. I like all the animals anyway. I enjoyed my ride on the first page of communities during Owl of the Year and picked up a lot of new subs during that, and I hope they make the most of it too. I don't know how hard it is to find new and unique pics of some of those animals day in and day out though. Again though, I feel that would make Dogs higher up as many people can just glance down and see a dog! I guess Lemmy folk are just cat people.