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What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by beSyl@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better.

Having said that, it would be better if lemmy's userbase were much bigger. There are many, many, interesting communities that are basically dead. We need a bigger userbase to drive some content to those communities.

If person A wants to discuss topic X, but there are barely any people with whom to discuss topic X, person A will go back to the usual for-profit corporations to do just that. This is obviously not good, for obvious reasons: just look around.

And an equally important point: for profit services, such as reddit, need to die. The userbase create the content and a select few get rich from it? Fuck them.

So the question is:

In your opinion, what can we do to increase the userbase?

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[–] Lenna@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First step is to make sharing posts easier by integrating something like https://threadiverse.link/.

If I wanted to share your post with my friends, I'd send them the following link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/461864/what-should-we-be-doing-individually-to-increase-lemmy-s-userbase.

If my friends were also on Piedfed.ca, then all's fine. But if they're on a different instance and want to comment and/or vote on your post, then they're fucked. They would have to go on their home instance, look for !asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then search for your post.

I say friend, but this applies to literally everyone here except those who are already on Piefed.ca.

[–] borisentiu@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I agree, but at least on Lemmy they don't have to look for the home instance first. You can paste the url into the search there.

It looks like that doesn't work with the Piefed search? (Didn't use apps in both cases)