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


Hehe, check out one of PieFed’s latest new features: Deleted posts and their comments can still be read. Mods can either delete entirely (if as you say illegal or some shit) or simply remove from the normal display from the community thread, but leaving the discussion intact - e.g. answers to questions that people would like to preserve, even when the OP deletes their own post.
In short, each person is the owner of their “own” content - like a question asked to a question community - but the resulting answers and discussion do not belong to them, but rather to the individuals who offered those answers in good faith, hence are now allowed to remain (it takes active participation i.e. it is opt-in, but now it is an option whereas before it was not).