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Few things I despise more than an absolute number provided with no context. Is 60K a lot? A little? The usual? How much does it deviate from the norm?
But I'm betting this week was an outlier for some reason or another.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
You can call it running away but it's not out of fear, it's because the quality of discussion dropped to nothing. It didn't used to be that bad when a post broke containment. I've had great discussions on HN with people who disagree with me on very fundamental issues on political topics and I would describe it as polite and informative.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
Few things I despise more than an absolute number provided with no context. Is 60K a lot? A little? The usual? How much does it deviate from the norm?
Indeed. And on a site with 611 Million monthly active users, that means 0.01% are deactivating their accounts each day. 3% after a year. Sounds insiginificant to me.
I'd be interested in seeing something about user IDs that scroll some minimum amount vs user IDs that just post.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That should show up in MAU and time-on-site statistics. Which the site should be compelled to report to advertisers.
X does seem to report stats like this to the public. https://x.com/XData/ Obviously there is probably a decent amount of cherry picking of the stats to report.
Virtually any significant publishing platform has a press kit detailing circulation or equivalent numbers, which are in most cases publicly available, so far as I'm aware. I'm not finding a definitive statement as to whether or not this is required in the US, though most significant publications, and now online sites, provide similar data.
The Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) seems to be the principle source of circulation data in the US, per this Pew article (2023):
"Newspapers Fact Sheet"
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...>
That also notes however:
[T]hree of the highest-circulation daily papers in the U.S. – The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post – have in recent years not fully reported their digital circulation to AAM.
Few things I despise more than an absolute number provided with no context. Is 60K a lot? A little? The usual? How much does it deviate from the norm?
Indeed. And on a site with 611 Million monthly active users, that means 0.01% are deactivating their accounts each day. 3% after a year. Sounds insiginificant to me.
My account got nuked because I changed my birthday date for jokes and it locked me out for being 'too young' when I signed up way back in 2007. I would have needed to provide photos of government ID to re-activate so I let it go.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That should show up in MAU and time-on-site statistics. Which the site should be compelled to report to advertisers.
X does seem to report stats like this to the public. https://x.com/XData/ Obviously there is probably a decent amount of cherry picking of the stats to report.
Few things I despise more than an absolute number provided with no context. Is 60K a lot? A little? The usual? How much does it deviate from the norm?