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

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    The more niche communities really suffer I feel from the decentralized pattern. Tv shows, movies, video games, etc. you have everyone trying to be the “de-facto” instance and none of them really get traffic.

    Really, Lemmy is just a US political platform with some weak notions of being anything else. And if it wants to survive, it needs more people, with more interesting topic. To many subs are just ghost towns.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Agreed.

      The politics here is also so hostile and violent, and one-sided. It’s gross. Even moderate/chill points of view are mercilessly attacked and told the are awful bad people for not being extremists. Anyone who isn’t on ‘their side’ is the ‘enemy’.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      A big part of that is on the design side. We really need the ability to fork/ clone/ merge/ migrate communities across instances. Lemmy was designed to be an “entire” reddit replacement. Because of this, we end up with redundant communities with less activity. Migration of accounts and communities could effectively solve this issue.

      Its possibly lemmy could have been designed such that communities of similar type could be aggregated into a single instance. For example, maybe you start a “snowboarding” community on .world, but when a sports focused instance pops up, you might want to migrate your community. A few instances build like this.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Yeah. Huge improvement and my other account is on piefed.social

          Not having it from the beginning though, it helped create this issue in declining usership, which will kill the entire project if we don’t address it.

          I’ve lived through the birth growth and death of many former spaces which occupy a similar role as Lemmy. When users start to depart, its almost always destined for catastrophic collapse.

          • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            15 hours ago

            Well, better late than never. Piefed can’t retrospectively solve the limitations that Lemmy had.