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we need more users
(discuss.tchncs.de)
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
A) "Lemmy" is an embarrassingly bad name.
B) Most of the content I see on here seems to be shitposts. Not saying it all is, but the immediate impression for new users is terrible.
C) Lemmy's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. Moderation is near non-existent and the comment section of posts always devolves into shit.
C) Moderation varies wildly based on the instance, and the community. I wouldn't say Lemmy comment sections are any worse than Reddits though.
Most people on Reddit avoid the larger subs like the plague though - but then when they come here, they don't know what to avoid or even to pay attention to, e.g. is !Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net a lively and fun, exciting place, or a toxic cesspit hellhole?
And at least that one is honest about what it is, whereas lemmy.ml markets itself as a community dedicated to discussing FOSS! (Which, among other things, yes is one of the variety of things discussed there, although somehow that description seems to be missing a fair bit of information that would have REALLY helped out a ton in educating people what communities to participate in).
This doesn't really seem to make sense to me.
funything i havnt have that much of interaction with the .ml tankie as much as hexbear, hexbear seemed to be mroe prominent, before i blocked the triad.
i think you got it reversed, people go to reddit to engage in the massive subreddits. ask, politics, videos, fauxmoi,,,,etc are all heavy traffic for the site.
i suspect alot of users who arnt banned on reddit, are waffling between reddit and lemmy, some are even going back there to engage in the subs, and reddit has more content so they probably are spending more time there.
Except don't forget that when people get IP-banned from Reddit (which also blocks people using proxies as of late) for being "too toxic" (even by Reddit's standards!), they come here.
So there are some that have little choice.
they're definitely better than reddit's in my experience
I would place them at a quality on par with reddit at the latest five years ago
you still get people who insist on not understanding what words mean, but less frequently
reddits is more oppressive, mainly because your dealing with reddits AI moderation filter, which can apply blanket bannings for no reason at all, and thier bot detection is too overly sensitive, and the mods with thier individual sub filters, and the mods meddling too. and the favorite, report abuse, eventhough you wernt spam reporting.
of course anything to do with trump or saying something should happen to[right wing person] usually immediately catches a temp ban, warning.
you get severely more punished on any community, or posts that are tankie, or /world politics. thats what i noticed, just the other day comment was removed a mod for rebuking a tankie comments, and saying how "harris: was not the sole cause of her own election loss. some people are not seeing the big picture but fixating on a 1 and only cause.
alot are also porn too, which puts people off, and having the tankies posts isnt good either.