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we need more users. there's barely any content on here for any niche topic, and i miss discussing about random very specific topics. for example: spaceflight, astrophysics, etc.
we need more users. i'm slowly witnessing what feels like the death of feddit.org, because there's just not enough users to post interesting content. (NO, i cannot "just post more content myself then". i cannot keep a platform alive myself, and in fact i'm not even trying as long as i don't feel that there's enough people who would even be interested in seeing that content.)
we need more users. not just for the niche content, but also because i think that it would be good if people (the public, not just a few nerds) knew about the possibility of providing information to an open platform, instead of a closed for-profit one.
size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is. they restricted access and pushed ragebait (for engagement baiting) and adware, and that's what made it bad. lemmy will not suffer the same fate just because it grows bigger. as long as it stays non-commercial, it will get better as it gets bigger. thus we should strive to have more users on the platform.
the problem is people were to quick to jump to another platform, and dint stick to one to grow it. when the last instance shut down, they went to piefed, other platforms with even less people on it, it just dilutes the population too much.
If you're not into tech and politics there's barely any content for you on lemmy. The average person doesn't know it exists let alone know how to use it. And there's also barely any women on Lemmy.
Ohshit is feddit dying? What did I miss? I love that place!
There was a subreddit for everything. “The front page of the internet.” You could find subs for birds shitting on things, with buff guy arms photoshopped onto them.
That was what attracted me to Reddit. I first subscribed to things like AskReddit, NoStupidQuestions, TodayILearned, AmITheAsshole, MildlyInteresting, WhatIsThisThing, … stuff like that.
Latter I dove more deeply into niches like AskPhilosophy, LearnPython, JavaScript, LinuxQuestions, HomeAutomation, Consciousness, PostgreSQL, …
Then I started also using it for news…
It had everything. Every little division had its own subculture. If I didn’t like one, I could find alternatives — plenty of them.
It also became somewhat of an archive too, given that you’d use Google to search Reddit. You could find anything on there.
I mostly learned of Lemmy because I began to despite Reddit. That’s not really an effective marketing strategy. Lemmy needs something more than “Fediverse” when at least half of the population isn’t willing to understand what that is or outright accept it as a necessary solution. Lemmy needs to compete, giving more people a reason to participate. If it can’t incentivize more people to participate, then more people aren’t going to participate.
I don’t know what that looks like for Lemmy. It’s not whatever Lemmy does right now, though.
The only way you'll get that content is by posting it. Ofc everyone wants infinite users so they can sit back and get the content they want to lurk on with no effort. I do too lol
yeah i get that but there's communities where i'm the sole poster for months.