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

  • Pika@rekabu.ruEnglish
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    4 days ago

    First of all, welcome! Hope you’ll like it here.

    Politics surely seems to drown the regular conversations at times. But some niche communities are quite active! Places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world , as well as general search might be of great help in finding your gems.

    As per federation and stuff, I think Mastodon of all places does a more or less decent job on boarding new users, and Lemmy has a lot to learn from it.

    Regardless, the core idea is that there are plenty of various physical servers operated by various people - you can be one of them, just rent/build a server and set some software up! They all are set up to know of each other and talk to each other.

    For example:

    • You connect to a server under the lemmy.ca domain. So, some Canadian guy just rents/owns a physical server and puts some software on it.
    • I connect to rekabu.ru, hosted by a guy somewhere in Russia. Same idea.
    • The post is in the community on the lemmy.world server, which is a third one.
    • All of them know of each other’s presence, as listed in their internal files.
    • When I write this comment in response to yours, my server (rekabu.ru) sends this message to lemmy.world, where the post is located. From there, everyone, including you, can read it.
    • Should you want to respond, your comment will be synced from lemmy.ca to rekabu.ru, and I’ll see it.
    • Should I send you a direct message, it will go straight from rekabu.ru to lemmy.ca. And vice versa.

    So, there are three different physical places where the events are playing out. Yet, at the end of the day, you get my message and I get yours. And so do others.