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

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Here’s my Amateur Coder waving the Wand of Coding idea:

    What if we had a FOSS browser extension that scraped Reddit passively, uploading everything you see as you browse (except PII like your username and PMs and such) via bot to Lemmy (on a delay so they can’t pinpoint your identity as easily?)

    I can’t be the only one who splits their time between Lemmy and Reddit, and would much rather participate here than there, but there’s much less to comment on here.

    My favorite subreddit (/r/tampa) recently perma-banned me for extremely petty reasons, but /c/tampa is a ghost town.

    • Koarnine@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      That does sound like a decent idea, that way the content being mirrored would be only that that genuine users accessed.

      Perhaps immediately mirroring the content as the browser itself reads it, preventing additional requests that could be flagged.

      Only issues are:

      • some people don’t use reddit whatsover anymore
      • many people only browse reddit on mobile
      • a browser extension might require too much trust and involvement to generate much output considering the development involved.

      Though this does answer some issues and have some clear use cases.

      Cheers for the suggestion!

      • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        The nice part about my idea is that even with those hurdles in mind, I still proposed it knowing that all it would take is one person to happen upon whichever post or subreddit to auto-scrape and get the discussion on Lemmy going.

        Let’s be real; 99% of the reason Lemmy is less popular than Reddit is copy+pasting a link, writing your own title, etc. is more effort than 0, therefore the Lemmy-Reddit hybrids like myself don’t bother.

        Hell, even the staunchly anti-Reddit Lemmites who could be parasitically “stealing” posts and comments to steal Reddit’s thunder don’t do it. There are other things they’d rather do, evidently.

        Now that I think of it, after using the word “scrape,” it could be that Reddit ToS follows most websites’ in that scraping is explicitly forbidden, so displaying the open source code (or even using it) would incur legal action from Reddit.