/c/café daily chat thread for 24 June 2023 (self.cafe)

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Joke of the day

Why do squirrels swim on their backs?

To keep their nuts dry!

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[-] dcx 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After reading the Lemmy guide more carefully, I think we have way more users than I thought yesterday:

I think the 1.62k users are locally registered users, not federated users! This means we're actually growing steadily by about 20-30 local registrations a day. (Yesterday we were at 1.6k, day before at 1.57k, etc.)
The 67 users/week is the number of users who have posted or commented within the last week. There are way more users registered, but they're lurking.
This lines up with r/malaysia! Over there we have 360k subscribers and 6.4m views per month, but popular posts generally get 1k upvotes. So a huge proportion of the sub lurks and never even upvotes.
This gives me hope that we can build this into something that will survive the long haul. We've built a nice community together on r/my and it'd suck to lose it if reddit declined.
Hello lurkers! :)

Oh, tagging @Naomikho@monyet.cc and @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc since we were talking about this yesterday.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 4 points 2 years ago

Interesting. This might be due to each post over at r/my have automod linked to this server, and there's no news over there. I have a feeling once monday is here we will see a stagnant growth of new user and the active user might drop a bit lower than yesterday, as everything went back to normal. Not helping the retention is Lemmy is such a pita to use sometimes, and right now we're basically duplicate of r/my, r/msians, r/mhp, and r/mpf combined, so it's hard to retaining active user for longer than 2 days, since they have larger audience back there.

So is there any direction you want this server to take? As far as i'm concern i'm in for a long haul. Feels like this could be so much more than the direction Reddit is taking.

[-] dcx 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also hmm back on retention –

I'm wondering what we can do to keep a candle burning over here when the main sub comes back online. Would love to hear ideas.
So far, the best idea I have is that there is content we can offer here which is hard to get on r/my
Chinese / Tamil / Jawi language support is definitely one thing. But I'm not sure what else at this stage.
Maybe we can point people here for specialised content which we're normally forced to remove, such as job boards, buying and selling, dating, promoting local arts and business...

Hmmmm. Perhaps we should start a discussion post for this meta / strategy stuff somewhere, and put it on the sidebar.

[-] Naomikho 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think doing it in the daily chat thread is kind of random. I'm up for hosting a discussion on any other platform too, whichever is the most convenient.

For r/my, on top of what you mentioned, I think there are some other downsides, and Lemmy can offer much more in those aspects

Only 2 maximum pinned posts, while for here there's a pinned post for monyet.cc, but each community can also have their own pinned post. I think this would really come in handy, and you don't need to keep rotating the pinned posts.
On Reddit, everything is bundled together, and you'll see everything regardless whether it'll be something you're interested in. But here you can only subscribe to local communities that you want to see! I kind of dislike the fact that there is no category for subscribed local communities however, since I mainly subscribe to other instances for stuff like news and updates.
No ads? XD

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