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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).

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we need more users (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm worried that mods here are starting to abuse their power as have happened on Reddit and have seen some instances of it. A lot of people fled Reddit because of it and will not stick around for the same bullshit here.

So making mechanisms to prevent this kind of behavior must be a priority.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Much progress has already been made.

In Lemmy, the federated nature offers freedom not so much to the end user but to instance admins who can pack up and move or even make changes to the codebase rather than simply blindly deploy each new version.

PieFed takes this several additional notches forward by allowing democratization of moderation, e.g. rather than a community making it a rule to allow "no USA politics", instead users can turn on their own keyword filters, or a much gentler rule of "USA politics must use the USA community flair", thereby allowing the decision to remain in the hands of the end-users rather than one mod team ruling them all.