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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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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The info hygiene here is really bad. I thought people here would be better about finding well sourced informative articles to talk about but its the same news slop that dominates other platforms. This is a discussion forum so posts should have something worth discussing. Spamming the same trump action over and over doesnt create any discussion.

Scrolling through the news community is so depressing there is no comments because everyone is thinking "what do you want me to say its bad its awful"

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

On the contrary, I've made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don't seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren't structuring the site the counter it.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I guess ragebait really is what the people want. Its a bit sad but oh well.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.