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
guilt by association is a hell of a drug.
but i’m not gonna lie, most of the crazy hostile comments I get are from .ml users or other far-left instance users. which makes sense. I’m not far-left, so in their eyes I am a Nazi and I should be violently suppressed for not believing what they believe.
I’m okay with your point of view. I can say tge same about the lemmy.world instance. Maybe we belong to a third instance, but as long as lemmy.ml has me uncensored, I’m happy here.
i will say .world has had a massive infux of crazy douchebags the past few months. i have been on here two years, nad it was rare to get harassed/reported/banned, but things have changed recently whatever the last reddit exodus was.
to me it’s just general rage posting and rage baiting taking over, from what was a much more chill place a year ago. across multiple instances. but on the flip side, the engagement is way up. irrational rage and hate drives engagement. people love to scream and insult other users more than they like talking to them as if they were people.
Now that you point it out, I think that’s exactly it. I’m glad people like you are still around there.