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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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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if we can combine the related fediverse services (like piefed, which is getting more and more traction lately), mbin/kbin, and others.

Because according to this graph I dont exist for example. Im not a "lemmy" user, but I sure interact with a lot of lemmy.

There is also a number of instances that are chosing not to give their numbers anymore either because of AI scrappers getting really aggressive, or because they just dont want to be seen by the different tracking software out there.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. This seems like the lowest hanging fruit, the absolute minimal solution.

Given the emergence of Bluesky and the parallel rightwing echo chambers, the fediverse does not have the luxury of splittism IMO.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago

WDYM? That will just make the graph look less terrible but not address the problem.