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

  • Bazell@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    24 hours ago

    Either we will have a huge spike in activity soon or Lemmy will become a ghostland. It is no wonder that we have low activity here with those numbers of users. But, on the other hand, Reddit has too much users + bots which leads to information overflow. Thus, Lemmy would be nice if it had only a few several hundred thousands of users.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      There does seem to be a cyclical nature to new users. Same with new communities. I’ll go looking for a niche community and find one, only to see a half dozen posts 2 years ago during the first big push to the fediverse, and then it’s dead after that. It’s entirely possible I’m looking at an entire ghost community where every one of those users bailed a couple years back.

    • GardenGeek@europe.pubEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      I don’t quite get it:

      Lemmy has started in 2019 with 0 users and 0 instances. In 2023 there were still less than 100 instances… now the platform has oviously jumped to a few thousand instances and about 100 k users. To me this is the opposite of a ghostland. If we consider that bigTech will mostly screw over their customers bowing to Trump I don’t really get all the negativity around here.

      I’ve joined two days ago and you know what? I’m actually willing to contribute by posting instead of lurking at reddit because if I create content it’s not for somme multi million dollar corp to fill their pockets with revenue but for this community to thrive…

      I my eyes this isn’t the right time for doomerism… on the contrary.

      • Bazell@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        I agree with you. I just say the possibilities based on statistics. I also like Lemmy more than Reddit. The only issue is that there are missing some specialized comunities like the one about Pyrotechnics(the only one existing on Lemmy is on the dead instance, thus having no activity), for example.

        • GardenGeek@europe.pubEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Jep, I think the lack of specialized communities is definetly a problem. However I think this is, in the last resort, mostly up to us as users. If we don’t create content for topics we find interesting… who else could?

          But I also get that possible reddit refugees who are used to lurk on content instead of creating it (I don’t exclude myself here) will find the plattform(s) to empty to be satisfied.

          • Bazell@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            Yeah, but for lurking on Reddit you don’t even need an account. If only you are not NSFW enjoyer. :)

    • ShadowRam@fedia.io
      2·
      23 hours ago

      When it came to light to everyone that their Up/Down Votes are tracked and viewable by everyone, they basically stopped engaging.