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

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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.

[-] imaginelizard 5 points 2 years ago

In a way I think we might need to cannibalize the main sub a lil by doing exclusive content here instead like the upcoming election megathread. Big events like this was a big draw and boost to the subscribers count for the past few years. Or perhaps there's an opportunity to tap into the Malay and Chinese online demographic by doing a similar megathread for those demographics instead. That way this instance is not competing for the same crowd as the main sub.

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