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

  • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    Fediverse is changing. People used to put the text of images, like comics, in the body of the OP to be more accessible, but I haven’t seen that in ages. It’s something I noticed.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I still see that pretty frequently, but I think part of the reduction in frequency is that the community of transcribers has dwindled.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I thought it was the influx of new posters who don’t take the time to transcribe their images, a growth in users that surpasses the transcribers. I guess this chart says otherwise and the transcribing users may indeed have dwindled.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      People used to put the text of images, like comics, in the body of the OP to be more accessible

      I argue that that’s a perfect use case for AI because it can do that well and reliable and it doesn’t need to be done by humans manually. You’re just annoying users that way when a machine can do it perfectly fine.