• nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Insane to start the plot at 45k. The rate of decline is rather minimal

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      1 year ago

      In the last 3 months it went down by about 10,000 users. Comparing with the rate of increase in total Lemmy users, active user rate should have at least been stable. I guess we will have to wait for reddit to fuck up again for another influx. And Lemmy is only getting better with time so probably on every influx more users are going to stay.

      I try to get people from niche subs I follow to move to Lemmy but every time I do I get downvoted. Could be automated by reddit idk

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        1 year ago

        If you start the plot at 0, you can distinguish between a strong trend, a weak trend and a lack of a trend. This one is terrible for gauging that.

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                1 year ago

                If you start at 0, you see exactly what you’re supposed to: there is a rather negligible trend in the given timeframe.

                That’s the point. The number of users has very slightly declined in the past few months. Under the original plot, you have a lot of people (rightly) misinterpreting the data, and saying that a lot of users are leaving the site.

                That’s why you start at 0. So that people interpret the data correctly.