• OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah this is a good point.

      It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.

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          1 year ago

          If two instances are federated you can access communities on both from either instance.

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          1 year ago

          Do you need to for some reason? You can subscribe, comment, and post to any community that’s federated with your home instance.

          If you’re on Lemmy.ml and the comm you want to sub to us on Lemmy.world, you should be able to find and subscribe in the “communities” section. As long as it’s filtered for all communities and not just your “local” instance.

        • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          You join one, you can see, post on, comment on, and subscribe to communities on any server it is federated with. Beehaw.org defederated itself from sh.itjustworksl and lemmy.world a couple weeks ago which is making it confusing for some people. If you are on beehaw.org you can still see old posts on those two from when they were federated, but nothing new and you’re comments on those old posts won’t be posted for other servers to see, and vica versa for sh.itjustworks and lemmy.world users.

          You can make an account on beehaw as well if you want, but it gets a bit confusing as to which one you are logged into sometimes.

          As a lemmy.world user I type “lemmy.world” into my address bar and do all my browsing from there. You can change your page to look at “all” instead of “local” and see content from all instances it is federated with. Or you can go to “communities” and filter by “all” and see all communities from any instance it is federated with. (As long as one of the lemmy.world users has visited that instance at one point)

          No reason to make multiple accounts unless you really want some content from a defederated instance, like beehaw.

      • Solo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I just started with mastodon. Lemmy I’m pretty understanding at but do you have any people/ hashtags you reccomend following on mastodon to not make the whole place feel so small and repetitive? I’m interested in pretty much anything.

      • (´。• ᵕ •。`)@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days

        From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.

        An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."

        https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html