Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
Jordan117@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s always going to be an activity difference given the userbase gap, but it’s a mistake imho to see a slow-paced community as “dead”. As long as it has active subscribers, any post will get votes and comments from people who see it, even if it’s been weeks or months since the last post in that community. Slower-paced, but still there for whatever content gets posted.
moeggz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I agree with this, but I think many subscribers are from accounts that are no longer active.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I’m not sure if the mod tools make this easier, but you could measure a community’s engagement by taking the total number of upvotes/downvotes comments for all posts, and dividing by the number of subscribers in the community. This would at least be a measurement to quantify a decline or steady state over time. Obviously perception matters, if people feel like a community is dead, they’ll leave, and it’ll be a self fulfilling prophecy.