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.
edit: source for the graph
pretty much. i have been here for over two years. in the past few months it’s become more and more frustrating and i’m getting harassed/attacked/banned, always from bad faith actors that whose grade school reasoning is ‘i know you are but what am i?!’ type justifications. they only reply to call you names and tell you how wrong you are and how right they are.
it’s the same idiots who ruined reddit who can’t tolerate anyone who thinks differently than them and then screech about how tolerate and open minded they are and if anyone disagrees with them the are a stupid facist bigot.
people forget, but redditque was a think people actaully practiced and made reddit a really cool place. people would argue, but they generally didn’t ban/block/harass each other. nobody in first decade of reddit went around downvoting/reporting all my posts. but that’s just how shit is now on the internet too many unwell nutjobs who want to punish people who type words they don’t like.