to be fair, a minority of video creators (and nearly no subreddits) have very long or sporadic upload schedules, which would make the MAU metric be weird bursts. MAU works for regular content which Reddit pretty much always is while only the top YouTube creators do that.
So for a channel that releases like 10 videos a year?
Tbh I could probably think of something but really what is even the point in it? Like it doesn’t even matter to me how many people are watching a youtube video. At least a community on lemmy the active users are the people you are talking to. But watching a video is the same with 1 or 1B views.
This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel’s sub count.
Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they’re a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.
That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.
And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that. They won’t send plaques based on weekly average activity numbers.
lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.
to be fair, a minority of video creators (and nearly no subreddits) have very long or sporadic upload schedules, which would make the MAU metric be weird bursts. MAU works for regular content which Reddit pretty much always is while only the top YouTube creators do that.
Weekly active users.
Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.
So for a channel that releases like 10 videos a year?
Tbh I could probably think of something but really what is even the point in it? Like it doesn’t even matter to me how many people are watching a youtube video. At least a community on lemmy the active users are the people you are talking to. But watching a video is the same with 1 or 1B views.
Remember that my original comment was pointing out that YouTubers would flip out if they switched to this metric.
I agree with you.
Weekly would make the weird bursting even worse.
This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel’s sub count.
Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they’re a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.
Yeah, you can infer it.
But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.
I thought they already are doing that?
That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.
And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that. They won’t send plaques based on weekly average activity numbers.
I was thinking of the drop in views that some creators are reporting… not subscribers. My bad!