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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Things will improve after the major release with more fine grained controls. Being able to limit community interactions to members will drive up quality engagement and that should drive up retention rates.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

1.0 will be good, but probably still many months away

and I kind of doubt most Reddit users will care, maybe we'll gain a few hundred users if we're lucky

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

How long does Lemmy.world take to update its instance? I am saying that it can take a full year for a new version of Lemmy to propagate out across the Threadiverse.

In the meantime, some instances are simply abandoning Lemmy and converting into PieFed instead, which seems a much quicker route to achieve access to additional features.