First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better.

Having said that, it would be better if lemmy’s userbase were much bigger. There are many, many, interesting communities that are basically dead. We need a bigger userbase to drive some content to those communities.

If person A wants to discuss topic X, but there are barely any people with whom to discuss topic X, person A will go back to the usual for-profit corporations to do just that. This is obviously not good, for obvious reasons: just look around.

And an equally important point: for profit services, such as reddit, need to die. The userbase create the content and a select few get rich from it? Fuck them.

So the question is:

  • In your opinion, what can we do to increase the userbase?
  • Mavytan@feddit.nl
    5·
    17 hours ago

    A couple of things that come to mind

    • advertise, drop the name here and there, especially on reddit because it is so similar in purpose, also share posts from lemmy with friends
    • interact with communities you’re interested in, make sure there’s good content or at least comment, especially in smaller, nicr communities
    • improve user experience, Lemmy is slow, especially when loading subscriptions, also posts reappear all the time while scrolling
    • more casual content, I don’t want to be confronted with all the horrors going on in the world all the time, sometimes I just want to see something funny, apolitical, etc, something chill