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Following https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/194717/we-need-more-users I decided to explore data a little bit more. I'm not the biggest fan of growth-as-as-target so I wanted to see how much the people were participating in the discussion.

The data

I took the data from the API explorer in https://api.fediverse.observer/ with this query:

query {  
  monthlystats {  
    date_checked  
    softwarename  
    total_posts  
    total_users  
    total_comments  
  }  
}  

Then parsed the json with this https://jqlang.org/ filter:

jq '.data.monthlystats | map(select(.total_users > 0 and (.softwarename == "lemmy" or .softwarename == "mbin" or .softwarename == "kbin" or .softwarename == "piefed"))) | group_by(.date_checked) | map( {date_checked: .[0].date_checked, total_users: ([.[] | .total_users] | add), total_posts: ([.[] | .total_posts] | add), total_comments: ([.[] | .total_comments] | add)}) | map({date_checked, posts: .total_posts/.total_users, comments: .total_comments/.total_users}) | sort_by(.date_checked) | map([.date_checked, (.posts | tostring), (.comments | tostring)]) | .[] | @csv'  

(As you see I filtered for the threadiverse. I also did the same with all software, I'll put the graph for that in comments)

Then did a good old' chart

What to think of it

I don't know. Users' activity is on the rise and I find it nice

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We really need better onboarding for new users, maybe ask them about their interests to give them a default set of subscriptions (it would probably just be a tweaked version of the community search page). And default to the subscribed feed, not the All feed

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't that how Piefed onboarding works?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yes.

I've seen so many discussions like this about what needs to be done. So I did those things.

Very few noticed and I quickly got tired of popping up and saying "oh yeah I fixed that" to everything. Besides it makes me look like a smug asshole.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

You should be a proud smug asshole (endearing) for fixing the missing capability of Lemmy poisoned the well.

I wouldn't have stuck being in the threadiverse if it wasn't for piefed. It would just be a failed third attempt to join Lemmy since the reddit APIpocalypse.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 20 hours ago

yea I think so lol