no users. Lets stop pretending we can fix this by moving to yet another different platform

"We can't fix the 'no users' problem by adding more users"

It's okay, if Reddit is what "has users" looks like, then I'm perfectly happy to have "no users" over here on the Fediverse.

People are so stubborn that they're still using Twitter lol. It'll be many years before anything overtakes Reddit, I just hope it's decentralized

there are more users than i could ever talk to. that's plenty.

38k is more than enough activity for a plateform to be lively. Especially when those user are spread across the world, allow for content at every hour.

Like complaining about the number of people on the rafts versus the Titanic. You can stay there if you want, but you are never going to "fix" a platform that you don't control.

That's one thing I love about the Fediverse. Over on Reddit, if you belong to the 38k, you're a rounding error. Here, you're a significant part of the community.

Their loss, Lemmy is great. Everyone's been pretty good so far, even when I'm being the annoying-preachy anarchist in a lib/nonpolitical instance. That and Sync for Lemmy have made it a pretty pleasant experience.

More real users than Reddit

Especially when each Lemmy user is valued at 342 times the worth of a Reddit user.

But moving would literally solve the number problem. That's how Reddit got big.

Don't feed the trolls. They don't need to be here anyway

Personal experience: the smaller group is, the more friendly and stick-together group will be.

Reddit had bots for a fucking long time. And since they allowed to close up user profiles post/comment history, tracking who is who became harder. There is no way that wasn't by design, it most certainly is. There is no secret that reddit is in cahoots with LLM companies. They will use (or already are using) bots to populate their site and probably will skew public perception in a desired way using bots.

Not like Lemmy has no bots. But it's so much more peaceful here.

-sigh-

Create an instance that’s nothing but tons of bots bullshitting eachother and include them in the numbers. You know, the ways all the other companies lie about their user count.

Also commercial platforms try to maximize their user count so they can sell more ads.

Meanwhile, fediverse has little interest in increasing its user numbers, because we don't generate money from it. In fact, more users would probably mean (slightly) higher infrastructure costs, though i'm not sure how much they actually are or whether one could consider them "negligible".

Anyways, if we had more users, we'd also have more diverse content on Lemmy, and i would definitely appreciate that. Honestly, it's a bit sad that 50% of the posts on the frontpage are about US politics, but i guess it's just a topic that gets a lot of traction because it affects a lot of people and also because there's not so much other content on the platform yet. I hope we'll get more communities about somebody's fringe favorite topics. :D

their loss...

It's frustrating to see people considering 4 upvotes something to be frustrated about.

No users. Let's not fix this by not moving there. 🤯

FOMO is a weird thing. Sometimes I get in moods where it's like, I don't want to watch a movie from 10 years ago, it's not relevant and no one is interested in it anymore. Or music, or whatever. We're actually hardwired to go along with the crowd, to want to be part of the bigger crowd, etc. So cheers to all you who chose this less-trodden path, or just got banned enough times on Reddit to take the hint 🍻

I'd rather take 38k active monthly users than the maybe 20 non-bots and 3 billion bots on their landfill they call a garden.

I wouldn't mind seeing Lemmy grow further, but I hope it never reaches the levels of current day Reddit.

Centralised platforms trying to be all things to all users are a terrible idea.

Drives me nuts with games too. Some games NEED a huge userbase for balance and ELO and whatnot, but it's always wild to see a solo or team-based PvE game billed as "dead" because it has only 5k concurrent players.

Maybe its just my opinion but I personally wouldn't reccomend piefed until they get a bit more stable, they have a few more pressing issues rn than users