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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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I found myself telling myself, "Go on reddit today, don't go on lemmy. You need a break from all the extreme constant politics"

This happened to me too. What I ended up doing was extensively muting communities that made any political posts in my feed and using a keyword filter (Sync supports this). My blocked words include Linux, Biden, Union, etc.. Now my feed is mostly memes

[–] DelilahBlack@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Crazy right ? Yes so far I've done that in reddit pretty good. I cut it out real quick. If I see any political word or name I mute it. Cause it will just keep on going. So reddit experience has gotten better bc of that.

With lemmy I'm constantly blocking most communities. What's weird though is I feel like I've already blocked certain communities and they keep popping back up.

I also use a few lemmy clients. So idk if the blocks are synced and carry over to each app.

From what I have seen, some apps do, and some do not. I think that is a factor for sure