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 seems 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. 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 – 2023.
Posts
First let us see the number of posts coming from Liketu.
Here is the chart.
We can see the sharp growth at the beginning of 2022, reaching a peak in May 2022 with a 140 posts per day. A drop in the summer, and a growth again. Another drop in November and again a growth afterwards, reaching another peak of 160 posts a day.
There has been some drawbacks in 2022, but overall the number of posts has an uptrend in 2022. This is a growth in what has been a very bearish year for the market with an overall drop in the crypto prices.
Comments
The chart above was only about posts.
What about comments?
Here is the number of comments made per day from Liketu.
On the commetn side of thinsg we can see a lot of oscilations, but overall a small number of comments. Users are usuing the site to post mainy, but not for commenitng.
Somewhere between 10 to 30 comments are made per day on the frontend.
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 as well, with the comments being the white on the top of the chart.
The overall uptrend in noticable here as well.
When we polot the numbers on a monthly timeframe we get this.
Between 3k to 4k posts and comments per month.
We can notice the overall uptrend here as well, with February 2023 reaching an ATH for the number of posts and comments. March being longer will for sure have another ATH.
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 number of MAUs on Liketu has also seeing a growth in the period. Starting with just around 200 MAUs back in January 2022, and reaching a 700 MAUs in February 2023. I expect a 1000 MAUs in the following months.
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 2.7k unique authors that have used Liketu to post.
In the last month alone there was 150 new accounts that have tried out the app for the first time.
Authors That Posted The Most
Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in 2023.
Quite an even distribution 😊.
The @borniet account is on the top with 75 posts, followed closely from @bradleyarrow and @jlphotographyart. Thes accounts have been averaging around one post a day on Liketu.
Overall Liketu has seen some decent growth in the numbers of post and authors on its app in what’s has been one of the worst year for crypto. Everyone likes photos, and now they have a nice frontend on Hive to use it for that. Also, they seem to find a right balance in terms of type of posts for Hive, where posts are not just one photo, but a combination of few with a story behind them.
All the best
@dalz
