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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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[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah well, I am not good at that.
The best I have gotten people to say is how I "know so much" about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren't really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me.

[โ€“] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least they're flattering you ๐Ÿ’ช

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Honestly, it is not fun being flattered in a way that makes me try to give them an answer that they will ignore.

Imagine a C++ compiler with feelings, reading your code ignoring the return value of a [[nodiscard]] function.

[โ€“] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Ooft... yeah, fair enough. I don't get the joke, but I got the sentiment.