How can we make it more popular?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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It's essentially a brand new platform. A tiny dip a month after the initial boom is far from "losing users" and is not indicative of trends. I don't understand why everyone is so obsessed with growing Lemmy as fast as possible.
Because a lot of the time you lose users because there aren't enough users.
You also lose users when you're basically asking your userbase to be alpha testers as you build from scratch. It's fine, it's an open source project.
People that are thinking this is some finished, capable competitor already are a little out of touch though. Which is unsurprising, given we're all in a weird, dark corner of the internet atm.
And even if it stays small, the quality and community here is thriving. Sure, we have our trolls and junk but they don’t have nearly the influence or visibility as…ahem…other familiar platforms.
I have mixed experience with community quality here. For many topics you should better ask your question on Reddit - you will get better answers there (and faster).
Depends on the communities... quite often they consist of one or two users (or bits) reposting old or current Reddit posts.
And certainly for more niche topics the communities tend to be dead.
Quite often there is little commenting or conversation.
The communities with the most conversation seem to be about Lemmy and the Fediverse...
But yes there are a couple of decent communities in my Home feed, but the whole needs to grow to get it to a tipping point where it provides an active and diverse (in topics and conversation) community.
Fair.
Also, a lot of younger users started back to school. But I'm with ya. Let Lemmy grow organically. There are no advertisers or shareholders to appease here. There's no need for explosive growth.
Yeah we don’t need more assholes here. They can stay on the other site.