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

  • Surp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    17 days ago

    I’ve been here a few years now and I can say Lemmy’s got issues. You can’t come on here and have a good time anymore when all it’s about is trump trump trump and Linux Linux Linux it gets old. I wanna escape from reality a bit sometimes and there’s few areas to subscribe to that gives any joy anymore.

    • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      Yeah part of the issue here is that there are so few users that the more niche topics just don’t get a lot of traction.

      For example, I help mod the Washington Capitals hockey team community, but mostly it’s just two of us talking. We recently decided to stop posting game day threads for every game, because there’d be one comment in them (usually me), if we were lucky - and we were the last NHL team community to end the game day threads; most stopped long ago. The overhead just wasn’t worth the reward. We decided we’d focus more on the general Hockey community, hoping to build that out a bit.

      (We didn’t give up entirely - we posted a sticky thread that is for all games, and we’ll make a top level comment for each game in there, asking people to respond to that comment for that game. If they don’t, not a major issue. This way we still have the forum for the game discussions without having to worry about posting it every time.)

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      I think part (though not all) of the issue is discoverability. There’s other communities where this isn’t as prevalent, but a) they’re not always easy to find, and b) for this as well as other reasons, they might not be super active (if people don’t know it exists, who’s posting?)

      I get around the first bit by trawling All New once and a while. One feature I will say I liked on reddit was the random community function. But while I like that it’s a smaller userbase here for some reasons, it does mean less diversity of interests.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      17 days ago

      On a long enough timeline, every Lemmy thread eventually becomes one of the following:

      1. ACAB

      2. Trump bad

      3. FOSS good

      4. Reddit bad

      5. Socialism (generally, via vanguard party) good

      6. Tankies (i.e. #5) bad

      Not that I disagree with most of the above, but we need some normies in here to balance things out, so invite them and don’t demonize them. That’s made trickier by Reddit banning people for talking about the Fediverse/Lemmy, so you have to be clever about it.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      17 days ago

      amen. i want to nerd out and make jokes and listen to people’s stories and gain insightful from other people.

      but now i have weirdos going into my history from such threads and telling me that if i think there is any subtlely to social or personal or moral issues, than I’m evil incarnate.

    • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 days ago

      Well, if you leave there will be one less person who would post something that’s neither Linux nor Trump. Be the change you want to see in the world. Stay out of spite, invite more people like you over, post whatever you want, and shove them into Linux posters’ faces!