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g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me 5 hours agoI am always surprised people claim 34,000 daily users is "a ghost town" we, well other than Earnest, made it through the great Reddit exodus
Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in
g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me 5 hours agoI am always surprised people claim 34,000 daily users is "a ghost town" we, well other than Earnest, made it through the great Reddit exodus
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 hours ago
34k is absolutely nothing for an entire network of communities. I used to mod for a gaming forum that was just in a single language (not English) and much larger than that - and even it felt quite small.
Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of users on any online community are near permanent lurkers and do not contribute with even brief comments - or even by voting. What matter is how many people are actually submitting links, writing posts and comments.
Look at this community: It’s the largest “general” technology community on the lemmyverse (I think), yet there are just a small handful of people posting, often days between posts and on average (going by the last three pages of submissions), tons of posts where not even a single user is commenting. Anything that isn’t controversial and does get comments is usually in the 3 to 7 comments range.
That’s a ghost town. I can practically see tumbleweed slowly rolling across the page. My perception might be a little skewed though, because the way I interact with posts is by annoyingly inserting myself into existing conversations or at least replying to unanswered comments that already exist, so I tend to avoid empty posts.
Part of this emptiness is certainly due to forums in general going the way of the dodo (thanks to Facebook, twitter, instagram and especially Discord, as awful as all of these are at replacing conventional forums) and part of it is due to reddit having absorbed much of the user base that is still interested in forums. My hypothesis is that reddit losing users due to ongoing enshittification would just result in the overwhelming majority of them ending spread out across the aforementioned services instead of ending up here. I’m terrible at predicting things though, but the big reddit exodus (or whatever actually materialized) largely skipped the lemmyverse in the past and I don’t think conditions have changed enough for anything different to happen this time, should this recent boneheaded decision by reddit’s management result in fewer people using their site.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 27 minutes ago
ive seen some sensitive topics on forums more openly discussed then on reddit, where theres more potential to get astroturfed.