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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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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, feeds are neat bc they're user-curated, they're easy to copy, and you can easily tell which communities are active.

Your proximetry metrics is a good idea too, I bet it would work best in a tool like the Lemmy Explorer: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

yeah i get what you mean, but it would be neat if it was automated so it's personal to you, and just shows you new communities you might be interested in.

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

that site is odd... looks like we have to go to https://lemmyverse.net/ and THEN click "communities"...