Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is still all there, but it’s rising. :( That really makes me sad. How can we convince the mods there to move people here? Is it allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit or do we risk of being banned?

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If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.

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Post per day seams steady at about 30/40, comment per day seams to have dropped from 3/400 to 250/300, I would have expected a great fall.

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If you compare post per days from before the strike, it definitely falls. It’s no longer an upward trajectory despite subscribers growth.

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Yeah I wouldnt be surprised if spez is bolstering subscriber numbers for larger subs with bot accounts

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You need to compare with the same period last year.

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Makes sense, the people who have both the tech knowledge and conviction on the advantages of selfhosting, were probably the most active posters.

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The new subscribers are probably bots.

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100% how spez started out initially and made it appear that reddit had a lot of activity. So this definitely smells like spez-tricks

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It’s interesting how Lemmy shows active users before subscribing. Even reddit shows “readers” (people currently online), but people hyperfocus on subscribers (which can be dead accounts).

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