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


when the other big instance shut down, it just got distilled to mostly politics, which /worlds only. i was enjoying the cinema/movies, tv show communities until it just mostly disappeared. some rare subs too.
There are still active cinema and TV show communities, the ones from lemm.ee mostly moved over to piefed.social.