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  • Taking a look at the current sidebar, it might be nice to reorganize the stats section completely

    What I’m thinking is:

    By default it will only show some stats, where users can select what stats they want displayed in the settings. This way I can hide the stuff I don’t care about, instead of having to look through the already busy list.

    **Statistics:**                       [✏️edit]
    
    - Monthly Active Users: 4,000
    - Total Subscribers: 30,000
    
    [ v see all v ]
    

    Then expanding the box will give the full list of stats:

    [ ^ collapse ^ ]
    
    
    **Statistics:**
    
    Active Users: 
    
    - By day: 800
    - By week: 1,200
    - By month: 4,000
    - By year: 24,100
    
    Subscribers:
    
    - Total: 30,000
    - Local: 12,000
    
    Comments: 
    - Total: 81,000
    - Today: 510
    - This week: 1,315
    
    [... etc]
    

    It opens up the possibility of including more items in that list. We could also replace the expand option with a link to a full statistics dashboard page.


  • Creating a bunch of accounts possibly to manipulate votes

    Looking from the admin level, doesn’t happen that often. Vote manipulation is already something we keep an eye out for, and usually it’s done to highlight certain content (ex. pushing some political angle) rather than boosting one community over another.

    you can stop seeing by adjusting your “Show Bot Accounts” setting

    I like some bots, but I only subscribe to a bot-only community if the volume of posts is reasonable.


  • Alternatively, I think both metrics are helpful in different ways

    1. Quality over Quantity: MAU counts lurkers equally with active participants. PCM focuses on actual engagement.
    1. True Reflection of Activity: A community with 1000 MAU but only 10 posts/comments is less vibrant than one with 100 MAU and 500 posts/comments.

    I’d say votes are also an important part of engagement. It helps differentiate between good and bad content. I’m more likely to join a community with a few good posts a day (or even a week) than a bot community with many posts a day. Going by how the subscribers counts change over time, I’d say this is a common experience.

    1. Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.

    While any abuse is bad, spam posts and comments are a bigger concern right now. AI generated spam / link spam is obnoxious and we deal with it often (as admins/mods). While someone could make lots of accounts to inflate MAU, it only really affects the community ranking against other communities and not day to day usage. Lemmy is already considering removing the trending section, and admins usually step in if a bunch of similar accounts are created at once.

    1. Easier to Track: No need for complex user tracking. Just count posts and comments.

    I’m not sure I understand this point. Are the vote/comment/post calculations very resource intensive?

    All that being said

    • I don’t see any downside to listing the info in the places you mentioned
    • If people want such a sorting option, then sure why not. Give people options





  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhere'd everybody go?
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    This is good feedback, and I agree. I try my best to limit moderation to content that needs removing, and simply vote on the rest.

    One thing I find is that mods are more likely to remove/nuke a thread when they’re stretched thin or there is a wave of rule breaking content. Bringing on more active mods can help so that each mod can spend more time scrutinizing each post.

    The other great thing about the Fediverse is that you can make your own version of a community if you disagree with how one is being run. I’ve joined a few communities with different styles of moderation



  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhere'd everybody go?
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    20 days ago

    I think it’s because it’s just memes and also quite hard moderation and downvotes

    Could this be specific to the American election?

    I feel like I’ve seen more items in the moderation queue recently. I can’t say I’ve had to act on more items though











  • Otter@lemmy.caOPtoFediverse@lemmy.worldMastodon 4.3 released
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    Helping writers and journalists

    In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

    We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

    Well that’s cool!