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
the big dip in 2024, oct might have something to do with people going back to reddit and other social media trump news?
I’d argue the opposite, Lemmy was in a decay and Trump and the go European movement prompted a new influx of users to Lemmy. External events didn’t cause the dip, but the recovery.
actually i was going to add, that was when reddit started to purge people, all the way back after election, it was pretty clear when reddit became mysteriously quiet for a long period of time.