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we need more users (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago* by 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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[+] 49 points 7 months ago* (4 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    75% of small communities, if not higher, don't use lemmy-federate to expand the visibility of their community. The user makes the community, broadcasts a few posts locally and then gets sad that no-one replies (because it can only be seen locally). Nor do they make use of !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to advertise.

    I use lemmy-federate a lot to help this, but it's sometimes too late after they set the comm up.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    That's another good point.

    PieFed has at least taken some steps to work on this, with it automatically posting new communities to NewCommunities and auto-subbing the instance to those posted there.

    If the Lemmy devs stopped pushing ML propaganda, transphobia, and genocide denial and actually worked on the software, we might be in a better place today.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have proposed piefed instances be able to opt into automatic federation with other selected instances when a community is made. I think it might work like that now via a toggle. Rimu would confirm.

    Obviously smaller, personal instances would opt out of that but for general-use instances it makes sense.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is my analysis too. And why, instead of just upvoting posts that interest me, I try to think of something to say about them too. The dreaded "0 comments" is never a good look no matter how we much we tell ourselves that it doesn't matter.

    For this reason I tend to believe that many communities just have too much primary content. Too many posts and not enough comments.

    Thought experiment. 2 communities:

    • /c/one has 15 posts per day, 5 of them with 3 comments, the other 10 with none
    • /c/two has 3 posts per day with 5 comments each

    Which is the healthier community?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    My experience is that it's more like this:

    • /c/one has 15 posts per day, 5 of them with 3 comments, the other 10 with none
    • /c/two has 3 posts per day with 0 comments each

    Not every post is a hit, so if you cast wide you're likely to get a greater return on comments as something is bound to attract attention. The way the sorting works is that the 5 posts with 3 comments will show at the top and the 0 posts will drop off view, showing an active community.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm trying to think of something to say in riposte in order to boost the comment count.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Riposte? What a fun word, I should incorporate that.

    This thread is doing well for engagement, go sort by new and comment on something ;)

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