How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven't seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)

I think posting is probably the biggest thing you can do to grow the community. That and word of mouth - tell people about the fediverse.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 38 points 7 months ago (17 children)

at this point I think we might need comments more than posts, there's lots of posts already but most of them are lacking comments

[–] classic@fedia.io 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotta agree. A good discussion will pull me in more than lots of posts

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I agree as well. If I just wanted a bunch news articles and images I could use RSS and ~~Instagram~~ Pixelfed. Comment discussion threads are the best part of platforms like Lemmy.

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