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

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Lemmy users could vote, but my assumption would be that their downvote simply would not federate out to other instances. Their downvote would be reflected in the local count on their instance.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Ah, so it will affect some, possibly even most Lemmy users - those on a difference instance? Still, I agree that it’s not ideal to mess with the votes in that manner, it would be better to block the vote as if the user were banned, but I suppose that is up to Lemmy to decide how they want to handle their own side of the situation (i.e. for the local instance to not confirm the vote with the recipient instance where the community is located).