Fediverse

This is one of the biggest opportunities in recent years for a new social media platform to come up and establish itself and Lemmy seems to be totally squandering the opportunity. The fact that the active user count is dropping so fast, should be very worrying.

I think a lot of it has been mentioned by @rr7@lemmy.world, but it isn't just what is here, but also what isn't there. Namely the lack of posts in communities outside a handful of political ones. Social media should be some form of conversation and yet if you go to lots of the slightly more esoteric communities and there are few posts and even fewer replies to those posts. You'll basically be talking to yourself if you want to talk about cars or the latest gadget or asking for help on some DIY project.

Should we?

With School back I session, can see Lemmy really starting to take off. Students chating Between classes and seeing friends using Lemmy and getting word out.

And Winter in the northern hemisphere means more people insidenand doing stuff on screens. User base should go up because of this too.

I don't think we need to worry about Lemmy dying. It might take a while, but the user base will likely keep going up over many years. Just remember how new Lemmy really is.

so is your mom

Of course it's losing users, it's jam packed full of extremist propaganda. Hexbear, Lemmygrad, etc.

I'm considering joining them.

Make it run more efficiently. When users spike everything crashes for a like week

We shouldn't. Stop trying to fuck this up.