Completely agreed, and it’s one of the things keeping me off Mastodon honestly. I don’t have a close group of friends on it, and for the purposes of following a bunch of strangers/outlets and whatnot I want a better sorting algorithm to actually show me interesting posts when I check in the morning.
Well, as mentioned that is also covered by the Monthly Active Users metric that already is available. But in addition to that, I think it would be interesting to see the number of users who read and vote but don’t post or comment. Even though posting and commenting is the biggest part, actively voting is still an important part of the ecosystem.
I find the terminology of Kbin confusing and it’s one of the things putting me off it, personally. I don’t think referring to a shitposted meme as an “article in a magazine” makes a whole lot of sense, and from an onboarding perspective it seems more intuitive to work with familiar terms like “community” and “post”. Especially with the microblogging integration: if you want to make a thread somewhere you have to click “create article” because “create post” will have you make a microblog instead.
Are they still calling communities “magazines”?
I can see the arguments for both, to be honest. Ideally I’d like to be able to see statistics for both. Active Users and Active Contributors?
Fedifish sounds the best out of the given options I think.
Important to remember that Lemmy only counts posting and commenting as “Active Users”, not voting. So you’ll have many users moving over who were primarily lurkers who maybe made a comment or two on Lemmy just when they switched and have now gone on to lurk here.
Did you advertise it on the New Communities community?
Yeah, this is exactly it. Though I think it can be worked around/automated. This tool did it: https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony
The Fediverse population seems generally quite hostile towards algorithms, but i would love something like that. Discoverability is a huge issue on Lemmy right now. Apart from searching on lemmyverse.net/communities, we basically only have !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
They still have the Big Red Button of killing off old.reddit that they have yet to push.
Yeah, and ironically Sync struggles with certain link formats, so it’s not perfect yet. But being able to click direct links to posts and open them on your home instance is great.
As others have said, banglinking to posts or comments doesn’t work and I’m not aware of any method apart from extensions/userscripts to make sure the link is opened in your home instance.
I will note though, that just clicking the normal link to the post when on Sync opens it in the app (and thus on my home instance) instead of opening a browser window, so that’s something.
Absolutely, and also keep in mind that many who were lurkers on Reddit and came over here maybe made one or two comments immediately saying something like “Happy to be on Lemmy!” and then went back to lurking here and haven’t commented since. They would have counted as monthly active users for July, but not August.
Lemmy has no support for following individuals as far as I know. As others have mentioned, Mastodon users can post to Lemmy by @-ing a community, and Lemmy users can interact with that post normally, and with any replies in it (or other replies made by Mastodon users).
It’s possible Lemmy users could directly @ Mastodon users, though I don’t have Mastodon, so I’m not sure.
If you want to be able to follow both communities and individuals, then that is basically the selling point of Kbin, though Kbin isn’t for me so I don’t know exactly how it works and where in your feeds posts by individuals you follow shows up.
There are ways! Have a look at these:
Me as well. I only remember this because around July 1st there was a post about it, which lead to a wave of “doing my part by posting my daily comment to count as an active user”-comments.
Also worth noting is Lemmy only counts posts/comments as “active users”. Lurkers who only read and up/downvote aren’t counted.
In addition to content itself there is also ease of finding it and how it’s presented. People on here tend to hate algorithms but honestly Mastodon never clicked for me because (when I checked it out) you were stuck with a chronological feed. I dabbled with it but like you I could never get it to serve me content I wanted the way I wanted. Algorithms can be dangerous yes and I don’t condone Twitter’s and Facebook’s outrage baiting, but Mastodon currently just seems to demand too much work out of me.