First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better.
Having said that, it would be better if lemmy’s userbase were much bigger. There are many, many, interesting communities that are basically dead. We need a bigger userbase to drive some content to those communities.
If person A wants to discuss topic X, but there are barely any people with whom to discuss topic X, person A will go back to the usual for-profit corporations to do just that. This is obviously not good, for obvious reasons: just look around.
And an equally important point: for profit services, such as reddit, need to die. The userbase create the content and a select few get rich from it? Fuck them.
So the question is:
- In your opinion, what can we do to increase the userbase?
the biggest hurdle i see right now to expanding the threadiverse is how often people here are just absolute assholes to each other.
That tracks with every other platform though. I think the big hurdle is that it seems more complicated to get into since having independent instances is so different than everybody else.
Midnight rave.
First thing is gain enough support in the presumption that increasing userbase is a desirable outcome.
Chasing bigger numbers for bigger numbers sake is one of the biggest problems with capitalism
Honestly memes on lemmy are orders of magnitude greater than ones I see on reddit. If growing user base makes the memes more lame I don’t know if I support it
The main hurdle is onboarding. Normal people wont understand federation. All they know is Login with Google, that’s it.
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cultivate the niche hobby subs, thats really all that reddit still has going for it because it reached critical mass.
If I want to read discussion about a new movie or game that all seems to be on reddit, so I guess the lesson is to try starting that sort of thing here and hope it picks up. With a smaller user base you have to accept that individual posts may not get any traction though. I do think having discussion other than Linux and whatever Trump is going on about this week would help to grow the platform.
Start posting!
Ive been posting way more here than I ever did at reddit, and mods dont delete my posts randomly or out of spite.
Honestly variety is the spice of life, and keeping up with the zeitgeist is half of why people like to be online. I think this is a very good point!
Can we pool some money together and advertise somewhere or put stickers at coffee shops in big cities. Some of my other thoughts are to have influencers plug it, put adds on blogs especially hobby blogs and niche blogs if that’s who we’re trying to attract.
This would not be such a bad idea, honestly. Or just some small stickers that people place on their laptops.
However, I feel like we should see who comes on top, lemmy or PieFed. I feel like piefed might be our best option tbh. The lemmy devs don’t seem to be open to ideas, not to mention their whole stance on politics.
Cool stickers go a long way.
Nothing.
Twitter was fine until it got popular, as was Reddit.
Biggest thing, make it easy to understand.
I STILL dont really get the fediverse. Ive had it explained to me multiple times and I’m still shaky on how to explain to a normie.
Reddit is easy. Fb is easy. Lemmy has to be easy or it will never work. Humans are above all lazy.
And, give them a reason to leave. Why would my friends leave reddit or x, where the content is? (They dont care about bots or fascism). Lemmy has way less content.
Honestly I’m happy the Fediverse doesn’t have the Reddit user base. I’d rather try recruiting people from various forums on specific topics to the Fediverse. Like homebrewing (alcoholic beverages) is still happening in independent web forums that I think would be neat if they got federated, but I don’t think they in turn are interested in a Fediverse user base.
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We should start making little comics about how people who aren’t on Lemmy all go to hell and put them in random places.
I only came here when Reddit banned me, even though I knew about it for ages before that.
So we should get more people on Reddit to threaten violence against Nazis.
I mean for me it was a recent decision to delete for-profit and algorithmic social media. But that was internally driven as I realised they were making me more miserable and I couldn’t stomach the advertising anymore. But I’ve always failed to replicate that feeling in other people who are stuck in a mixture of sunk cost fallacy and boiled frog status, no idea how to do it consistently.
