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

  • KhantoBlackhand@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Honestly fragmentation is what keeps people that I recommend Lemmy away from it. They are used to the UX/UI doing most of the heavy lifting along with the more politically charged posts being there, my coworker who loves self hosting and tinkering tried to join. But was put off with how much more political things are on Lemmy and some Fediverse instances are and how hostile they can be with certain opinions. But I taught them how to curate their feed for more things tailored to their passions. But they’ve been on and off since there’s multiple versions the same community which feeds into the fragmentation issue. That is just a viewpoint from me, I’m still fairly new to the Fediverse and Lemmy. (Which I love how diverse it is and how passionate people are.)

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      i suspect hes been on tankie triad isntances, before i blocked the triad i found myself accidentally engaged to too many of thier posts.

      • KhantoBlackhand@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        It wasn’t due to only one instance, but more so the way federation works. They got tired of seeing a few political posts when trying to explore what the federated feed has and I ended up doing some work to help them curate a personal feed and set up for things they enjoy the most.

        I’ve helped them curate what they want to see. But since there are so many copies of communities that have varying levels of activity that’s what also put them off of using it as a core platform.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          PieFed helps solve that with categories of communities, and also by gathering together all comments across all cross-posts. Seriously, it’s an enormous difference, check it out, e.g. on PieFed.social.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yeah according to people here it is a sin to:

      1. vote right-wing, or
      2. vote at all, or
      3. not vote

      And you will definitely get an ear-full if you talk about it. Also, same if you do not talk about it. Well, aktshually…