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
Can I ask a different, more difficult question?
Where are people going?
Lemmy Isn't Quite It? Mastodon is too formal. Blusky is too political.
Lemmy was a clone of Reddit. Not an improvement on it.
Lemmy/Piefed is defederated. I feel like that in itself is an improvement.
I'm not saying it's not an improvement but it's not sufficient, either
What is your ideal reddit experience, so to speak?
Reddit circa 2013.
However, I'd like to take note that the world itself was far different in 2013. We're asking for 2013 politic levels when the current world is obsessed with politics and some countries are within five years of a civil war, mine in particular.
Well that's not really something a platform can change, is it?
Nope, just the landscape, but who's to say bored Lemmy users are going back to Reddit? They likely moved on, or settle for Mastodon, or like me, chats rather than forums.
Reddit hasn't exactly improved, trading "meh" for "eh".
if I knew, I wouldn't ask tbh...
most likely going back to reddit, its where all the drama, politics are.
And I at least was mostly lurking on reddit, as well, only commenting occasionally.
I went to Discord and Bluesky. Yeah Bluesky can be political + US centric as heck but thankfully other niches still have major presence... unlike Lemmy and the whole threadiverse.
bluesky has the advantage of being an active leftist contingent, and the disadvantage of being an active leftist contingent
I can totally tolerate Bluesky being too political. But the US-centric attitude there annoys me very much.
No, Threadiverse isn't much better. I have repeated this criticism of being US-centric countless of times to the point I sound like a broken record.
I'm so done with this whole thing
Back to reddit I imagine.
Reddit I think
I left, in a way. Lemmy was my main stomping ground. Now it's XMPP.
I don't need Reddit, I need engagement.
"Blusky is too political"
This feels like a very weird reason to not like bluesky, when there are many other reasons.