this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025

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Visualising your community size - the number of people who deliberately clicked 'join' because they're genuinely interested in the topic you're moderating. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cloudless@piefed.social to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip

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Source of images, you can see more crowd sizes up to 180,000:
https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/

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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's interesting to me how the more people there are, the more it looks right. Like, 50 and 100 look smaller than I imagined, but 1000 looks closer to what I imagined it would.