I know lots of folks are talking about Monthly Active Users when it comes to health of the Fediverse.

We use that to compare social medias and even ourselves, a social network, to each other.

I argue we should be focused on user engagement. I know LinkedIn has “impressions”, but idk what that means.

So I wonder if there’s a good way to generate this. Someone posting is the highest, commenting, subscribing, liking, disliking, and follow on down. I guess that would be a statistical model? But with diminishing returns. One SUPER ACTIVE ANNOYING poster does not a network make, but “media” it does.

I don’t have a clue how this would work statistically. But I theorize, that while we’re smaller MAU, our user engagement is significantly higher when population size is accounted for.

Is there any data anyone knows of to back this up or disapprove it? I’m pro small.social though, so maybe I’m wrong. Any data scientists in the Fediverse? :-D

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Similarweb reports a estimate of the total visits in a month. lemmy.world report says “520,592” total visits which is a lot (more then a website in my country i visit relatively frequently).

    That of course does not indicate the quality of the interactions which is obviously important ( i still spend time on reddit, but the quality of interaction in youtube for example is better then reddit and even lemmy for me because it has actual experts in it TBH).

    One way it is measured is by customer satisfaction, where for example for social media bluesky currently gets the highest score at least as measured by the ACSI. with pinterest and youtube in the second place. but the scores aren’t that high (bluesky is at 82/100).

    Other then that there are various awards, like the oscars or the emmy. Maybe we need a fediverse platform of the year award and fediverse instance of the year award. People could have to donate some money to vote so there won’t be a risk of too many bots gaming it and the money could be used to fund the instance/platform or fund the marketing of it. but i don’t know if enough people are interested in that.

    • ozoned@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      OH! This is brilliant stuff! Thank you!

      I run BT Free public charity https://btfree.org/ . I had been thinking about doing like a community vote and donate and like the top 3 split the prize pool or something. So allow people to vote on Lemmy or Piefed or Mastodon or whatever with like $1 donation. Yes, maybe Mastodon has the most users (idk) but can they get them out to vote? And no matter what, it’s supporting YOUR communities directly and spreading the word about these other platforms.

      • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I run BT Free public charity https://btfree.org/

        I suggest putting it on your about page. i personally try to limit my time trying to contribute to FOSS. seeing that someone is a actual contributor helps prioritize how to try to help. i assume other people have a similar approach.

        maybe Mastodon has the most users (idk)

        Probably

        can they get them out to vote?

        My assumption is that if someone is willing to pay and support FOSS he is going to be more thoughtful. There is a risk that just newer platform might not be well known yet so they will get less votes despite being superior. maybe have people give a score on a scale of 1-100 like the ACSI and if a platforms say have one percent of the votes and has the highest average it is selected. if this will gather interest and will go on for a few years different approaches could be tried. and you could do polls asking the community what to do . you could set up some kind of paywalled community, i think discord and patreon has that feature but maybe there is a open source alternative (mitra?).

        Nice job growing your instance BTW.