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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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[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is only looking at active users.

If we look at total users and servers across all Fediverse software you can see both are up.

I personally am not interested in making the active user count always go up. The Fediverse maybe better then Silicon Valley, but the health problems being on the internet too much is still there.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 17 points 2 days ago

I don't see why we should consider accounts that haven't been used in 6 months, we're talking about content contributions (posts/comments/votes) and those inactive accounts aren't doing anything for that

[–] missingno@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

Active users are what matter. Dormant accounts aren't doing anything.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Relatively there are less US users here compared to Reddit ("only" 50%). Seems the whole demographics is different too.