I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.

the way it’s going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.

So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.

edit: source for the graph

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    372·
    11 days ago

    Just talk up Lemmy, the issue is most people doesn’t realize there’s another option to the popular toxic trash fires.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      11 days ago

      I’ve told people about Lemmy before. I got the same reaction everytime.

      “It looks like it’s just people talking about computers.”

      And their interest dies. Which tells me there needs to be more diversity of active communities. No one wants to come to a small platform, create a new dead community, and talk to themself.

      • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        11 days ago

        To be completely honest, Lemmy is kinda dead outside the politics subs and some of the tech ones. When I deleted my reddit account I came here and joined some of the communities I was using reddit for: Pathfinder 2e, RPG, memes, anime. Out of all of them I only see an occasional post from memes while the other ones are literal ghost towns.

      • ClamDrinker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        It’s kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it’s tough to sell them on that unless they already like what’s being talked about. I think it’s probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy’s popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Agreed. If news headlines and Linux are your jam you’re all set already. That’s enough to keep me coming back but I aggressively join new communities as they’re made to support them. I only post rarely though, do I only do so much as of now