Starting up a new monthly post where I look at the communities in the instance to see how well all of them are doing

From this we should be able to see what communities are struggling so that they can be focused on for adding activity across the instance

My goal for december will be increasing the amount of communities that appear in the active and moderate sections and will compare to see the activity change then

For community activity levels im breaking this into 5 categories (note these stats are based on the new users/month stats in the instance)

  • Lively- 5k users/month or above
  • Active - 201-4999 users/month
  • Moderate - 51-200 users/month
  • Quiet - 11-50 users/month
  • Dead - 0-10

Communities in each category

  • Lively communities: 2 (1%)
  • Active communities: 11 (6%)
  • Moderate communities: 27 (15%)
  • Quiet communities: 45 (25%)
  • Dead communities: 92 (52%)

Most active communities

Least active communities

(These are ones that will be prioritized for making active) (theres a lot in the dead category so these are random ones from that, not all of them)

One other community that should be interesting to see the growth is the advent of code community as that is about to start

[email protected]

currently at 136 but I assume thats going to grow much larger

  • cacheson
    3•7 months ago

    Least active communities

    • !nim

    q_q

    I haven’t been working on my nim project lately, so I haven’t had much to say. I’ve been missing using the language, though.

    I resubscribed to r/nim on reddit just now, so if I see anything particularly interesting there I’ll cross-post it.

    • mac
      3•7 months ago

      now hit top 10 communities of the day due to the last 2 posts

      • cacheson
        1•7 months ago

        Oh wow, I guess it doesn’t take too much. I copied your survey post over to r/nim with a “cross-posted from [email protected]” link, and also invited the author of Enu to post here. I’ll keep at it.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•7 months ago

      Instead of reposting, may I suggest you write a DM to the original poster and ask them to join Lemmy instead to post the content themselves? When bootstrapping the emacs community, I was doing that and I was getting a somewhat positive response. About at least 20% of them were signing up.

      Also, now you can also mention that if they signup via https://portal.alien.top they will automatically be subscribed to all the lemmy communities that correspond to the equivalent subreddits.

      • @ericjmorey
        1•7 months ago

        alien.top has been defederated from Lemmy.world.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•7 months ago

          But this only means that the people on Lemmy.world don’t get to see the content posted by alien.top users. People on alien.top will still be able and participate on programming.dev normally…

          • @ericjmorey
            1•7 months ago

            It means that the alien.top users won’t be able to see the content posted by a plurality of users on lemmy instances. About 40% of activity on lemmy instances is from lemmy.world. And many of the communities that are stand-ins for subreddits are on lemmy.world.

            It’s a poor initial experience to lemmy.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•7 months ago

              It means that the alien.top users won’t be able to see the content posted by a plurality of users on lemmy instances

              alien.top is still able to see content from LW.

              • @ericjmorey
                1•7 months ago

                I mixed that up. But it’s not really better to have a significant portion of accounts not be able to see your posts or comments or be able to leave posts or comments on a large portion of the posts and comments.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•7 months ago

                  A counterpoint would be: now that alien.top is not mirroring content anymore, LW now has no actual reason to keep it defederated, and the more “organic” users there, the more legitimate it becomes.

                  I was saying from the beginning that the accounts would eventually be taken over by their owners, now that this is starting to happen, do you think that is fair to penalize the instance because it was successful?

  • @onlinepersonaEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    52% dead communities 😮 But at least there are stats. I wonder how many dead communities other forums and instance have.

    • AtegonOPMA
      2•7 months ago

      Probably a larger amount considering other instances don’t have a limiter for community creation so get a bunch more

      I can check lemmy.world

      • AtegonOPMA
        5•7 months ago

        I realized I cant check other instances individually with my stat system so I just took the average from all instances

        for all communities that are visible to the instance 61% are dead so our instance is doing better than average