Welcome to another recap of Decred’s social media performance! Here I go through ~95 accounts and report any interesting activity.
I finally made my “full” monthly snapshot after slacking off for ~4 months. Someone asked me if anything stands out and I couldn’t resist to sum up a bunch of boring numbers once again. No pretty tables this time, sorry about that.
Most notes are from running through Jun 1 snapshot compared to Feb 1, 2022.
CoinMarketCap wachers +6K (+12%) since Feb. Whatever this number means, NGU is good.
Discord is going up and down, slightly trending up. New user inflow is almost balanced by outflow and periodic purges. Still have not reached the ATH 2,670 users of 2020-02-02.
Facebook accs are almost idle. decredproject broke 4K followers. Decredcash is still alive and manages to grow bit by bit, +28 followers since Nov while decredproject got +38 in same time. For those who know where Decredcash comes from, this should be a surprise (or not?). Decred-Arabia grows slow but steady, +46 (15%) followers since Feb.
Gab exploded from 10 to 13 followers in 2022. Not winning that platform just yet.
On GitHub, btcsuite/btcd is growing slow & steady, +78 (+5%) forks since Feb. btcwallet forks are growing half that speed. dcrd is +5 forks since Feb, dcrwallet +6, dcrdex +14 (27%). Other repos are not changing much.
On Instagram, decred_es is gaining followers without posting anything, +44 since Jan. decredbr is growing slower but posting more, 18 posts since Feb. decredproject is gaining and losing a few followers each month.
I can’t get LinkedIn numbers since December and not sure if anyone is monitoring that account. For the little amount of noise we heard from it, it showed a nice growth previously, adding 10-20 followers/mo.
Matrix is growing as usual but I was surprised to see 300+ users in the DCR DEX room (#dex:decred.org). #general got +58 (9%) since Feb. Announcements room (#dcr:decred.org) got +17 (24%, to 92) since Feb. Even with all our mentions it is hard to grow.
Mediums accs are not growing. Decred has 1,378 followers. _Checkmatey_ and permabullnino do grow a bit despite not posting recently.
Reddit barely gained a 100 followers in 2022, it feels like its slowing down.
Telegram: DCRann gained +25 (15%, to 197) followers since Feb. It almost didn’t grow at all between Jun and Oct 2021, good to see it “break out”. All ann channels are interesting since they reflect how many people want to follow big Decred news. General Decred acc lost 200 (6%) users since Feb. Regional accs are declining or not growing at best. Notably, DecredES is fading since the funding was cut. decredbr is declining as well. decred_cn was wiped (it had 448 users in Feb) and recreated, only 8 users on Jun 1.
My impression is that Telegram is the least censored popular platform, so any presence there is valuable.
On Twitter, several accounts are bleeding followers (that’s normal), and, surprisingly, likes (cast by the account, not received likes) and tweets. Some by a little, some by a lot. Just a few picks to demonstrate, between Feb and Jun: DecredArabia -100 likes, Decred_CA -330 likes and -40 tweets, Decred_ES -53 likes -3 tweets, Decred_ITA -60 likes -8 tweets (esp. suspicious since this acc is inactive), Decred_News -100 likes -11 tweets, Decred_africa -18 likes -16 tweets (another dead acc), RichardRed0x -60 likes, decreddrive -60 likes, decredexplorer -50 likes. This may have been a result of a few popular Decred accounts getting cleaned up or removed by their owners, with a corresponding loss in likes and tweets in accounts retweeting them. Or, Twitter is doing some shady content erosion.
Among the growing Twitter accs, since Feb DecredSociety +22% followers (to 690), likely thanks to his active posting (400 twees). exitusdcr got +86 (13%) followers. Decred_BR, barely active in 2nd half of 2021, woke up and made 200 tweets since Feb (to 1,065), though did not gain much followers. _Checkmatey_ is killing it as usual, although not tweeting much about DCR. michae2xl made 1K+ tweets and +80 (6%) followers, although latest tweets seem to be about ZEC (I did not scroll much).
decredproject got +3.2K (6%) since Feb. Notably, it lost 400 followers since May 2.
pi_crumbs is a great service for Twitter folks to stay on top of Politeia and not miss a single vote. It is still maintained, but only 221 pro Decredders enjoy this VIP service. Follow it, like, subscribe, hit the bell, smash all buttons, and force your friends to do the same. (This reads like an ad… Your ad may be here too.)
planetdecred stands by its “The most modest crypto account ever” status, with 191 follower and 36 tweets over its 3.5 year life. Since Feb it made 3 tweets and gained 14 followers. Dear PD folks, if you read this, there is a huge potential to better inform the community about your products.
Some nice person is still posting in decred_project VK account, although it’s still slowly bleeding followers.
Decred’s main YouTube channel is not growing subscribers since ~Aug 2021 despite releaseing 25 awesome videos. Something is not working there. At least we manage to retain existing subscribers.
In other news, I made some upgrades to tsu (time series utility) and the data subrepo to prepare for new features I need to do things faster.. If this broke anyone please do get in touch.
That’s all for now. Any feedback is welcome in #research:decred.org.