Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 18/4/2025
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 18/4/2025
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
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Out of curiosity, is it possible to see how many members there are subscribed here?
Yip! The sidebar tells you the number of subscribers in a community. If you're using an app it might be shown somewhere else, but on the website it's in the sidebar and in Voyager it's shown when you choose the option to see the sidebar.
The answer is about 1,800 subscribers to c/newzealand. 340 users active in the last month (you have to vote, comment, or post to be considered active. Looking doesn't count).
481 local subscribers! But only like 10 people I see regularly posting.. 🙁
I'll admit I mostly lurk, I find typing and image handling are a pain on a phone. And I only comment if I have something on my mind, so I mostly just reply to interesting things other people say. And often not even that because halfway through slowly (mis)typing on a phone, I realise they likely don't care and it's not really worth it.
But hey, I'm still here!
Oh I agree on the image handling on mobile, actually I find it annoying doing most things on mobile. I usually wait until I'm on laptop or desktop. Unless I'm just commenting, like this!
Yeah I think it's pretty normal for only a small proportion of people to post and comment. I think many of the local users are no longer around, we are a couple of years in so many people have drifted away over that time.
Wow, thats a lot!
Yeah I reckon so! I wish more would participate 😅
I'm a lurker who just figured out I have bad social anxiety which affects posting/commenting, so now I just need to come up with some strategies to overcome that 😅 Also based overseas so feel like a lot of what I would share is not very relevant...
I used to be like that on reddit. Coming here I decided I'd just say things that came to mind. If it doesn't resonate with people then they don't reply and no harm no foul, but very often it triggers replies and conversations. I think it's a great way to get value out of lemmy.
Cheers, found it. Actually more than I expected!
I think it's pretty normal for the people who post and comment to be only a small portion of the total users. Many more will be voting but otherwise lurking.
The active users will also include people who aren't subscribed but just stumbled upon a post in the All feed.
Yea, I'm one of those who mostly lurks.
Well feel free to check in and say hi from time to time, we generally don't bite 🙂
Lemmy doesn't have much in the way of tracking users, so if you don't speak up we won't know you're here!
Lurking is of course fine too.
I'll see what I can do. I'm generally the same on reddit too.
Although sometimes the political posts get to me and I need to vent......
Haha I get the needing to vent. I do try to post nonpolitical stuff as with the politics in the world at the moment the political content can easily outnumber the rest and that's not particularly helpful for mental health.
Oh definitely. I just deleted the reddit app from my phone, following all the major other socials. So now if I want to, I have to log in on a browser.
I have the same instances followed here as reddit, but it seems much better for my mental health some how
Ah, found it. Cheers! Actually more than I expected