If its possible to create your own instance and federate with any instance of your choice - are there any apps which include the ability to register your own instance with you as the sole user? Maybe I’m misunderstanding the underlying logic

Evolution is crazy

I agree with this. There’s some problems that need to be addressed. Hopefully sooner rather than later

There does seem to be a lot of pushback around bots recently. It might be worth reaching out to discuss with a wider audience eg. !bots@lemmy.world or similar

Have you considered doing a top community of the week/month/year thing? You could reach out to community mods and alert them they’ve won “Top Community of X period based on <Growth>”. Keep a pinned post detailing current “winners”. It would help advertise this community, and it would encourage other communities to be more competitive/pro-active in appealing to new users.

I feel like Cosmic Osmo is doing something that would best be kept behind closed doors

That’s how doubt works.

1. There’s something you know and you experience something which challenges that knowledge.
2. Now you only believe this thing, less sure in your knowledge so you reach out to others who are more knowledgeable on the topic.
3. Post answer your belief has either returned to fact or you’ve learned something new, abandoned a false belief and grown as a person.

Nothing wrong with reaching out.

Nope, no change to the default settings

Huawei P20 Pro, big screen but old phone at this stage I suppose. Thanks for the quick turn around :)

Not for me. Attempting to scroll down does nothing either

I think splitting the post into sections dedicated to specific metrics might help. You could keep WIP metrics live but as different sections. For example…

Top N By…

Growth Percentage: <this would be your current metric> … … …

Absolute Number of New Subscribers: <eg. trendingcommunites +5000 new subscribers> … … …

Trending Formula (WIP) (Link to post detailing formula): <this is the formula talked about in a different comment> … … …

Etc.

I think that grabbing the easy metrics and offering them up initially will be more beneficial to growing your own subscriber count than trying to work out a clever way to do just the one thing.

Love the idea though, I’ve posted about this community in a couple places and I’m thrilled to see that it’s taking off a bit. Great job!

Sure that would work just as well if not better

This doesn’t work for me. Tapping once causes the image to close, not just the overlay.

Edit: Follow up on this. I found that if you zoom in slightly and then tap, the overlay will disappear instead of minimising the image. Not exactly as you described but I believe this was what you were referring to. A workaround for now but certainly not an optimal user experience

Wonder what book it was