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What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase? (slrpnk.net)

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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?

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is sort of crappy through its software decisions, similar to how Reddit is crappy but in some ways worse. There's not much we can do about that as users. Reddit also manages to paper over some of its crappiness through moderator interventions, while Lemmy tends to let crap slide. Crappiness = clickbait titles with no indication of what the link is about, lots of duplicate posts, etc. Lemmy adds the problem of fragmenting communities across instances. I think I heard that posts duplicated across multiple communities in a single instances will somehow be cleaned up in 1.0, which can help.

Anyway there's not a whole lot that users can do, except maybe launch some new instances or forks that don't suck as much.

[-] Dupelet@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Piefed fixes pretty much all of those questionable software decisions, though it does introduce a couple new ones of its own.

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