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

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    You can whine about it… or find a way to deal constructively with it.

    Disinformation != Misinformation != Information

    To hear your defeatest talk, Reddit has won. Survival of the fittest and all.

    I think we can do better. But never by ignoring the consent of the governed. Perhaps by listening to people, a way could be found to move forward? e.g. by allowing a true block of all users from an instance, as an alternative to defederation. Which Lemmy will likely never do, despite their promises for years and years to do exactly that.

    i.e. it’s a skill issue. Do better.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Its not defeatism. Its a basic understanding of how systems work, which you clearly don’t have. You being obtuse doesn’t change that. You and I can’t change the issue at play. Without scale, lemmy dies. Its not a debate and its killed plenty of projects long before it.

      In other words, hope in one hand and shit in the other; see which one fills up first.

      Without growing the user base, this project dies. Its not a debate.