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

  • pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Niche active communities for sure.

    I am also banned from reddit and can’t contribute. You’d imagine that would pull me more towards lemmy, but just getting the novelty of so many new posts makes it enticing even if I am not interacting.

    Instagram and tiktok benefit less from its algo imo than they do from its numerous creators. The novelty drives people. It’s complicated I am sure but actively this is what I think about when I reach for these platforms.

    I definitely think the trick is having innumerable amount of content.