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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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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. Btw r/all is in the process of being killed off, affecting some but not all users yet. So maybe hearing that news is what helped some people check us out. It did not seem to quite "take" though, given how the spike went right back down to the normal levels.

That is perhaps the most troubling take-away message from this graph: it is not simply people who do not give us a try who do not like us, it is most especially those who do bother to go through all the steps to make an account and do at least one action (even if that is simply a vote), but then who leave after a single month?

If so that would have devastating implications for the future of the Threadiverse - though fortunately it is far too soon to tell, since it is at least possible that some of that could be due to holiday travel.