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

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Maybe turning mastodon and pixelfed tags into communities and figuring out how to better integrate there would provide more and interesting content

    yeah, i’ve been thinking about the same thing. how to properly embed mastodon content into Lemmy? Maybe one community for each poster? Is that the right approach?

    Or should one Mastodon hashtag turn into one Lemmy community?

    • 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      Interestingly each community shows up kind of like a user in Mastodon.

      I think hashtags should be communities but I can see from an ActivityPub POV that would be difficult to dynamically create. Worth while though.

      It also makes sense that a mastodon user should kind of look like a community or a maybe user in Lemmy but I personally don’t like following people and much rather follow topics.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Maybe there’s only underlying posts and users to the fediverse, and the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon is mostly how they’re organized and presented in the feed

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      This is something I think whatever lemmy 2.0 is going to be really needs to focus on.

      Just be a content aggregator for ALL of the fediverse. Everything. One feed.

      Or maybe more clever ways of integrating. But right now, we’re still relying on video mostly from YT (not peertube) and screenshots of things happening on mastodon. We need more connective tissue.