Liketu has been one of the Hive dapps that has been quietly but consistently building their product for the past few years. In the last period they seem to be gaining more and more traction and keeps growing their user base.
Let’s take a look at some of the data.
As mentioned, Liketu has a focus on photos. Users can share their photos, make some commentary, and earn rewards. Its not a 100% copy of Instagram, as usually users share more than one picture and give a bit more explanation on them. But the frontend is overall with a focus on photos and has a nice UI.
Here we will take a look at the activity on the platform, the overall number of posts and comments, and the number of users. The top content creators for the last month will be presented as well.
The period that we will be looking at is 2022 – 2024.
Posts
First let us see the number of posts coming from Liketu.
Here is the chart.
We can see the overall growth in the number of posts with a spike in August 2023, and a continuous growth somewhere up to March 2024 when there was around 200 daily posts. In the last few months of 2024 the numbers have dropped and there is around 120 daily posts on Liketu now.
Comments
The chart above was only about posts.
What about comments?
Here is the number of comments made per day from Liketu.
Some interesting data here. At first the number of comments on the platform was very low with just a few comments daily. The a sharp incereas in June 2023 with comments going from 10 per day to 600 per day in a short perriod of time. Not sure what happened here, there was probably some incetvies introduced for the numbers to increase as much. A pullback from there and there is now around 100 comments daily.
Posts and Comments
When we combine the posts and comments on one chart we get this.
We can see the dominance of the posts here especially at first. The in the summer of 2023 the number of comments increased signinfcanty, a pullback later and now we are somewhere around the same number of posts and comments.
The combined data for the number of posts and comments is steadily increasing.
When we polot the numbers on a monthly timeframe we get this.
Here as well we can see the drastic change in the number of comments after May 2023. Cumaltive in the last period there is around 4k monthly posts and 2k comments.
In the past two months the numbers have dropped from a cumulative 8k to 6k posts and comments.
Authors
How about the numbers of the authors on the Liketu. How many accounts are posting?
Here is a chart for the monthly numbers of accounts posting.
The numbers of MAUs have been growing up to August 2023 when they reached almost 1500 MAUs. Since then, the numbers have dropped and in the last months its around 700 MAUs.
Next the number of unique authors that posted from Liketu. These are authors that posted directly through the frontend.
The number of unique Liketu authors is showing continuous growth.
There is a total of 5.8k unique authors that have used Liketu to post. In the last month there is a slowdown in the numbers of new accounts adding up.
Authors that Posted the Most
Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in the last 30 days.
The top account has posted 30 times in a 30 days period, so around one post per day. @angelinecleon is on the top here with @mariannysleon.
Liketu Votes
The main account @liketu is incentivising its users for posting with votes. It’s not a guaranteed vote for everyone that is using the platform but a lot of users are receiving votes.
Here is the chart for the number of votes.
We can notice the sharp increase in the number of votes in May 2023. This explains the increase in the number of posts and comments, especially comments. At this point probably some of the comments started to receive votes from the official account. The number of votes increased from 60 per day to 150 per day. It has decreased a bit in the last period but there is still more than 100 votes casted per day from the official account.
The Most Supported Liketu Authors in the Last 30 Days
Below is a table for top authors who have received support from Liketu in form of votes in the last 30 days.
The ranking is made by the cumulative vote weight that authors received from @liketu, meaning one vote at 100% is better than 3 votes at 20%.
Congrats to the users above.
All the best
@dalz
Hi dalz, in the previous post you made of Liketu you were answered, that is because of the "moments" that were incorporated, similar to the inleo threads but with photos.
Liketu has its own dapp for statistics https://analytics.liketu.com/
I recommend you this post https://peakd.com/hive-147010/@danielvehe/con-esta-herramienta-de-liketu-mejoras-tu-interaccion-esp-eng
Great info, thanks!
Not bad. I feel like they could Up the front end and do some back end coding to make it feel a bit more like a real Instagram replacement. But it servers it purpose and does a good job of it.
Bearing in mind, that we have self funded the entire time. There are limits to what we can achieve given the limited resources.
Considering that bar the OG hive.blog, other front-ends have in one way or another had public funding to the tune of hundreds of hbd per day, i'd say we're doing quite well. At least we're zero cost to the chain? How about a couple million dollars in of our own money buying Hive and Powering it up + years of sunk costs into development, very attentive community building, and soon, our own onboarding initiatives.
No VC money, no asking community to pay for things, no selling a token, no asking for delegation. All these considered, in the midst of an almost 3 year Hive bear market? Pretty darn good!
and that's saying a lot honestly and is an example of what other applications should be doing so mad respect to you and the team for doing what you have done. You're an example of what hive should be!
I’d have loved to use more of Liketu but I checked the frontend last Saturday
I wasn’t really familiar with it even though I still made a post
Thanks for the stats though
Great reports about Liketu.
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