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

  • stranded@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    7 hours ago

    it’s just a matter of time until the internet gets divided into spaces like US, EU, RU and China

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      OPEnglish
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      I have thought the same thing but i don’t think the distinctions will be so clear after all because even today, there’s people from China connecting to western internet via VPN. i have some in a chat group i’m in btw.

      So yeah, i think some proximity metric would help people to find stuff “near them” - either geographically or content-wise. Like, i’d actually like there to be an easy way to find communities and people near me geographically. It would probably help me make friends and find people that i can be in contact with IRL.