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
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      21 hours ago

      Oooh, good to know. So is this your preferred instance to recommend to people then, as opposed to e.g. the PieFed instance picker?

      At some point we may need to try to spread people around more, but it has a tenth the MAUs as piefed.social so we definitely are not there yet! :-P

      Also it is highly exciting to me to see slrpnk.net’s plans to migrate from Lemmy to PieFed - that is like the #14 largest Lemmy instance (if hexbear and lemmynsfw are not showing up in the list at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list).

      Edit: oh, but piefed.zip federates with hexbear.net - isn’t that going to be problematic, as noob users often run for the hills upon being exposed to such? I am perfectly fine with hexbear being opt-in, but on piefed.zip it looks like it is rather opt-out? (even though it truly has an option to allow opt-out of, given PieFed’s ability to block all users from an instance, unlike Lemmy)

      • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        Edit: oh, but piefed.zip federates with hexbear.net - isn’t that going to be problematic, as noob users often run for the hills upon being exposed to such? I am perfectly fine with hexbear being opt-in, but on piefed.zip it looks like it is rather opt-out? (even though it truly has an option to allow opt-out of, given PieFed’s ability to block all users from an instance, unlike Lemmy)

        Let me know if you find a well managed Piefed instance that defederates HB but isn’t Piefed.social. I couldn’t find one until now, which is why I accept that as a compromise.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          Feddit.online is another extremely well-established instance, with an absolutely enormous list of both Topic areas and Feeds available for use, yet it is located in the USA so may lack stability in the future.

          Tangent: somehow even piefed.crust also has the “Newbie-friendly” label despite being explicitly a testing instance?

          I see what you mean about piefed.zip though - federating with hexbear works against it, not as it being a good instance mind you but only it having received the “Newbie-friendly” label - yet it is the best compromise that can be found under the available circumstances.

          Except PieFed.social itself, which is already to PieFed what Lemmy.World is to Lemmy in terms of centralization, which while not a concern now will be in the future. On the other hand, if the goal is to bring people from Reddit, then federation with hexbear might literally make recommending PieFed.social worthwhile despite that concentration effect, until some other instance is made that would work better?

          • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
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            7 hours ago

            If I’ve learned something from Lemmy, is that most people will never move once they are settled on one instance, which is why I avoid recommending Piefed.social.

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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              3 hours ago

              It wouldn’t be so bad if another 5k people joined PieFed.social, but after that then yeah I would agree, especially in principle. People should spread out.

              Would PieFed.zip possibly consider blocking all users from hexbear by default, thereby making interactions with them as opt-in rather than a nasty surprise waiting for someone to have to discover and then find out how to opt-out?

              It is hard to achieve consensus, or for one instance to meet all the needs, but right now PieFed.zip does not even have so much as an instance label for them!! To be fair I see that such a label is lacking for Beehaw communities as well. I am sorry to say but the more I look at PieFed.zip, the less “Newbie-friendly” it seems to me, especially in comparison to PieFed.social. The latter has for Beehaw:

              This post is hosted on beehaw.org which has higher standards of behaviour than most places. Be nice.

              Which is very helpful for people who have never heard of Beehaw to know about, is it not?

              I note that https://thriv.social/ has many Topics, Feeds, and has hexbear blocked, what about using it as a place to recommend? It is pretty new though, and it lacks the Beehaw label (an extremely minor point most likely as it could be easily added?).

              The same for https://quokk.au/, and that admin has a lot of experience hosting Lemmy. Although I don’t see pinned posts for some reason, from multiple communities, so I wonder if there was a problem migrating over from Lemmy to PieFed.

              Otherwise, PieFed.social might just be the best recommendation specifically for newbies, until a more newbie-friendly instance could be built up?