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

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Same. It greatly did not help that Google searching for “Lemmy” used to go straight to lemmy.ml (as the first hit to a specific instance, after the stuff about the singer), which if you take a look at without an account you will see shows “Local” rather than “All” posts.

      Just imagine: you sent a Westerner to a place that routinely and literally calls for the actual murder and downfall of all of Western society, with such posts peaking just before any election in a Western nation. YOU might block those types of posts, but I am explaining what the people that you mentioned Lemmy to almost surely saw? (although immediately after the USA election I started noticing a shift away from it being more confined to just the triad and instead spread more throughout the entire Threadiverse - MANY people now routinely call for the guillotine, with ever-decreasing ratio of joking to serious, and remember that can be shocking to mainstream people?)

    • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      I just keep sending them memes I know they’ll like. I’ve had 3 friends joing various instances so far, because after a while they just go:

      Man…where do you get these memes?!

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Ah well, I am not good at that.
        The best I have gotten people to say is how I “know so much” about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren’t really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me.

          • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            Honestly, it is not fun being flattered in a way that makes me try to give them an answer that they will ignore.

            Imagine a C++ compiler with feelings, reading your code ignoring the return value of a [[nodiscard]] function.

            • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              Ooft… yeah, fair enough. I don’t get the joke, but I got the sentiment.