we need more users
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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
Look, this is my filter list:
Because i don't want to deal with depressing politics every day in my off time.
And this is what i still see:
Maybe a tagging system would help?
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Let's stop working on "Lemmy app" , "mbin app", "PieFed app", "Mastodon app" and just embrace ActivityPub as the single API.
phone apps can't use activity pub as that's a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.
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Look, this is my filter list:
Because i don't want to deal with depressing politics every day in my off time.
And this is what i still see:
Maybe a tagging system would help?
Piefed has built in keyword filters for posts. You can move to piefed.zip if you want more options here.
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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
I'll do my best! Luckily, Lemmy still has a healthy community though
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Piefed has built in keyword filters for posts. You can move to piefed.zip if you want more options here.
Thanks. But that's one instance. I think this needs a lemmyverse implementation.
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Thanks. But that's one instance. I think this needs a lemmyverse implementation.
Piefed isn't an instance, it's an alternative software that reads Lemmy.
Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.zip made their own Piefed.
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Well, you wouldn't come across hexbear or lemmygrad on pawb.social because it looks like your instance is defederated from them.
To an outside observer, â.worldâ users seem to be US propagandists intent on wrecking the platform. âTankies this, cowbee thatâ, when Iâve never seen a cowbee post that wasnât entirely reasonable.
Cowbee definitely seems in a sense like a very civil apologist (although with all the trappings of contemporary campism and tankiesm) - and not the worst example by any means, but for every Cowbee there's a BrainInABox type user.
Lol I like BrainInABox better, and I completely disagree with their worldview.
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Lol I like BrainInABox better, and I completely disagree with their worldview.
All they do, quite literally, is hurl abuse.
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I definitely do not find graffiti cool. It's illegal and antisocial behavior. The art can be cool of course (although it very rarely is in my experience), but the illegal act is not.
The "Workers over billionaires" sticker advocating for workers right, sits on the post of a grocery cart corral. I smile everytime I see it. I'm thankful for who ever stuck it there, and even cooler, it's not been scrubbed off after a full year.
You can cry rules/laws if you want, but where I am, the powers at large are not bound by any law, so why must I be bound to something so arbitrary? Why should we not advocate for ourselves in anyway possible?
Do you understand how hopeful it is to see graffiti/stickers in support of your values out in the wild? I was filled with hope when I first saw that sticker, for we are not alone
It feels really arrogant to call these acts antisocial behavior. It's not
There's also plenty of community boards around one could post a sticker to with a thumb tack, and it breaks no rule. It's free for use.
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Maybe I'm insensitive or just foolish but to me there's comedy in that.
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Maybe I'm insensitive or just foolish but to me there's comedy in that.
Oh I agree, it's inherently absurd - and I'm surprised they haven't been banned from basically everywhere else outside of the trio instances (they have been banned from a lot of instances) - but to a lot of people the main issue ignoring Cowbees apologism is the hostility they encounter on there.
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Oh I agree, it's inherently absurd - and I'm surprised they haven't been banned from basically everywhere else outside of the trio instances (they have been banned from a lot of instances) - but to a lot of people the main issue ignoring Cowbees apologism is the hostility they encounter on there.
Well I guess you're right and there is a lot of hostility towards certain thoughts in most instances. Everyone holds something sacred I guess.
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I've been here a few years now and I can say Lemmy's got issues. You can't come on here and have a good time anymore when all it's about is trump trump trump and Linux Linux Linux it gets old. I wanna escape from reality a bit sometimes and there's few areas to subscribe to that gives any joy anymore.
I think part (though not all) of the issue is discoverability. There's other communities where this isn't as prevalent, but a) they're not always easy to find, and b) for this as well as other reasons, they might not be super active (if people don't know it exists, who's posting?)
I get around the first bit by trawling All New once and a while. One feature I will say I liked on reddit was the random community function. But while I like that it's a smaller userbase here for some reasons, it does mean less diversity of interests.
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I've told people about Lemmy before. I got the same reaction everytime.
"It looks like it's just people talking about computers."
And their interest dies. Which tells me there needs to be more diversity of active communities. No one wants to come to a small platform, create a new dead community, and talk to themself.
It's kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it's tough to sell them on that unless they already like what's being talked about. I think it's probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy's popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.
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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
I advertised Lemmy to my friends a few times and they have now stopped replying to my messages
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you know what? that might be it!
Lemmynsfw coming in clutch
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I advertised Lemmy to my friends a few times and they have now stopped replying to my messages
I just keep sending them memes I know they'll like. I've had 3 friends joing various instances so far, because after a while they just go:
Man....where do you get these memes?!
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I just keep sending them memes I know they'll like. I've had 3 friends joing various instances so far, because after a while they just go:
Man....where do you get these memes?!
Not memes but I keep the address bar in the screen shot.
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I just keep sending them memes I know they'll like. I've had 3 friends joing various instances so far, because after a while they just go:
Man....where do you get these memes?!
Ah well, I am not good at that.
The best I have gotten people to say is how I "know so much" about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren't really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me. -
Not memes but I keep the address bar in the screen shot.
Fair play, whatever works is what's best
