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

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Thanks for your feedback!

    You landed on https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html to get started but you should have landed on https://join-lemmy.org/ which is a much simpler UI, i think. Somebody sent you the wrong link. I think, there should definitely be a more prominent link to the actual “sign up here” page.

    I’d separate the IdP (identity provider) from the service/content providers

    That is indeed a good idea and i’ve never heard it formulated like this before, but i gotta think about it now.

    After that you are told that your registration needs to be approved manually and that there is no notification about that so you have to manually check from time to time whether your are able to login or not.

    That is definitely a big problem that should be changed; I’m not sure but maybe you should get an E-Mail after your registration is successful and maybe you should also be able to log in and use the account immediately (up to a limited extent) without waiting for manual confirmation.