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

  • PagPag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    12 hours ago

    This place has always been dead if special interest groups are a measure. There is nothing here and honestly never was…

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      I’m not disagreeing with you. I didn’t say “this place used to be a utopia of special interest content”.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      24·
      12 hours ago

      There’s plenty but. It’s only dead if you think you need to be constantly engaged by your phone all day

      • PagPag@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        12 hours ago

        This is empirically false. Given the context, it is more akin to grocery shopping at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

        • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          18·
          12 hours ago

          No you’re wrong, using large words though really helps get your incorrect point across. Much further and you would be strawmanning it

          • Potatar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            10 hours ago

            Which word is big there? empiric? akin? or is it grocery? gas? station? middle? Did they edit it out and I missed it?

              • Potatar@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                10 hours ago

                I really though you were gonna choose akin because I don’t hear that one as often as 10 years ago (and I never used it I think).

                I’m a non-native speaker and I use empiric and empirically at least once a week. STEM though, maybe I’m biased.

                • PagPag@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  4 hours ago

                  Yeah, if someone I’m speaking to believes I’m trying to “use big words” for the sake of sounding smart, I generally just stop engaging with that person…

                  That exchange was some Facebook level shit lol.

              • Potatar@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                I checked the usage statistics and you are partially (85%?) right. Empirically is rarer unless you are(/were recently) in academia, then it is very common. Akin is rare in general but only in usage, everyone apparently knows it.