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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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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Things will improve after the major release with more fine grained controls. Being able to limit community interactions to members will drive up quality engagement and that should drive up retention rates.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you ask me, users kind of suck.

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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I am curious why there is such a big difference between FediDB and Fedi Observer.

FediDB has Lemmy at 48 K MAU:

https://fedidb.com/ (Lemmy is the fourth entry on the platform list).

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