CriticalResist8

It's like this. We made a thread on Otto Warmbier for Twitter that got 100k views, which was already huge for us and led to some direct traffic.

Then, we made a thread on Yeonmi Park just a few days later that reached a whopping 450k people, and that led to our second best day on record in terms of visits (first day was 1.1k visits on march 1st for some reason).

After that, we already saw increased traffic by about 150%.

Shortly after, some libs found our pages and tweeted about them. I think it went from tankiejerk (the subreddit) to some EU weirdo we ratioed lol who didn't like that we were truthful about the Dems and the Labour party. That led to some increased traffic too.

Then SDL (yes, that SDL) tweeted about us too and was literally the only person who couldn't tell the difference between Conservapedia's page on the UA-RU war and ours lol. That led, I think also with an r/tankiejerk thread, to our new second best day on record, almost reaching 1st place but falling just short.

Since then, along with a consistent posting schedule and call to actions on Twitter to redirect traffic to the website, we've seemingly durably doubled our daily traffic.

I estimate that since we went viral, we increased readership durably by 10% (total visitors - visitors that came from social media, averaged out over a week, then comparing growth between pre-viral and post-viral period)

And the best part is it doesn't matter if they're libs looking at ProleWiki for outrage farming! They're still looking. They're still visiting. Only 2% of visitors bounce from the website, meaning they leave without clicking on any other page.

Anyway comrades, ProleWiki is 100% volunteer work and user funded. If you want, you can either request an account or make a donation! We're actually going to make our first purchase soon, you'll be updated soon on that milestone 😉

Link: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/479221

It's our duty to make sure fascism does not spread on the fediverse, comrades.

This is a hypothetical.

Last week, we made a Twitter thread on the Otto Warmbier story that reached 125k people.

A few days later, we made a thread on Yeonmi Park that reached 450k people on Twitter.

Since then, any tweet we send out has been an instant hit, garnering 10000 views at the very least.

The Yeonmi Park thread was such a hit that Natalie Everhart and Hakim messaged us lol (okay technically we messaged Natalie first for help on a follow-up thread)

I've been posting nonstop since then to try and ride that wave as much as possible, spacing the tweets out by a day or two each so that they don't cannibalise each other.

This is after we'd been stuck in the void for a few months, desperately posting to go from 2390 to 2400 followers, our tweets getting a measly 300 views no matter on the quality.

With just two viral tweets, we gained 1400 followers, or more than 50%.

DPRK posting especially got them hooked, a simple picture of a bus stop in Pyongyang got 50k views.

It's also been great for redirecting traffic to PW, but not so much to get new editors yet.

I have to admit it's getting difficult to find stuff to tweet about and it takes a while to prepare those threads so if anyone of our Lemmygradians has ideas and would like to write a thread for us, I think that could be worked out. You get at least 10000 views guaranteed (it's addictive) and we can link to your handle!

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After:

I must have legit forgot CSS existed because the eyesore that was the before format stuck out at me for months before I decided to add the three CSS lines to fix it.

I literally said this yesterday, Lemmygrad is the instance preventing fascists from invading Lemmy, and they will never forgive us for it.

Also if you haven't read the thread: https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1665374518909517827 this thing got us 200 new followers on Twitter.

We heard you loud and clear comrades, and we're designing a survey! Any suggestion for questions as well as options to pick from can be made in this thread.

We were talking about the demographics of Lemmygrad yesterday, and someone pointed out the possibility of doing a survey.

Is that something you'd be interested in? We can ask stuff like how long you've known about lemmygrad, gender identity, nationality, etc. to get an idea of exactly how many of us here are minorities in some way.

But in proper survey format and everything. It would be anonymous, at best we get your country code (automatically sent to the survey software on top of your answers) so you can use a VPN if you want to.