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

  • 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    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