How can we make it more popular?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Isn't this ok? I'm not saying it's better... just OK?
I don't know if this is just me but why is there always a race to be the "most popular/larger platform"?
Isn't this kind of race to be the most popular the reason why a lot of platforms/companies/jobs/games/etc are suffering today? Growth for the sake of growth and forcing something to be more popular just because it needs to be more popular is just kind of sad.
It's not like "corporate fediverse/lemmy" needs more users... At least this is my opinion.
It's not growth for the sake of growth, it's growth for the sake of network effects.
More users = more content. I can't be the only one to feel the draw to Reddit since there's still often more active discussions there.
Only a fraction of any users on any platform actually post anything. You can already see that number of posts isn't slowing in the third graph.
This is a perfectly healthy for a new platform in a competitive environment.
Look at Twitter's early growth for a similar story.
Here's tweets over that period + further