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we need more users (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 109 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Just wait and let Reddit have another controversy

You know, there was a great blog recently that wrote about this, that now is the perfect time to popularize the fediverse. That's because as tensions with the US are rising, more people in europe are looking for alternative internet platforms to communicate over. So the fediverse can jump in here and offer itself as an alternative.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When I look at some generic instance's unfiltered feed all I see is posts about USA/Trump. I can see how this might deter a lot of Europeans who are looking for alternatives to Reddit.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Piefed sign up process asks the new user if they want to mute Trump and Musk. That helps a bit.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just Europe. Plenty of us in the United States looking to circumvent the vanguard party. And fascism is rising globally. We need decentralization and federation to survive going forward.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

This.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're actually seeing a rise in new user applications over at Feddit.dk. The hostile behavior of the US has gotten some Reddit users to seek alternatives to american platforms.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

i suspect reddit has upped thier bannings recently, even banning anti-right wing views. plus they upped thier detection of people who are serial evaders, the ones that use hundreds of accounts to spam(not the propaganda bots though). reddit bans for refrencing physical "damage" to people, not even outright saying it. or implying a "demographic" or anti-zionist comments.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

must be the "greenland invasion, distraction by trump thing recently"