Start telling people now, over on reddit. BEFORE they start cracking down. That way, everyone will know, and the growth will happen even more rapidly.
All immediately invest in lemmy stock!
I think coomers would sooner go to twitter for their porn before here
Why though? Twitter is almost completely inaccessible outside of login and nitter was shut down, it’s horrendous for nsfw engagement now
You’d have better luck thirstposting on insta or tiktok
Exactly. Also, good luck searching, bookmarking, filtering, sorting posts, organizing actual communities, etc. The whole methodology of the platform basically disallows all those things.
Lemmy is a replacement for Reddit. That’s straight-up what it is. That’s why we’re here. Even if TwiX hadn’t become evil and insane, because of its insane master, it still wouldn’t be any kind of replacement for Reddit. Especially the NSFW Reddit communities.
also corposhit is increasingly not useful for literally anything
Of course, according to some of the people in this thread, I’m a corpo-apologist, because I think the Lemmy/Fediverse has to grow beyond a level of about 2k users per day, per community, or else it will eventually die.
Face fucking palm.
or else it will eventually die.
how so?
BECAUSE 2K USERS PER SUB-VERSE, PER DAY IS NOT EVEN ENOUGH TO BE SAFE FROM THE ATTRITION OF NATURAL DEATH RATES, AMONG THE USERS.
Some of you guys really do not have even a smidgen of understanding, about how small the Lemmy/Fediverse platform is. More people probably get banned from Txitter/X every hour than the total number of users, in the whole history of this platform.
It’s not sustainable. It has to grow some more, or else it will die. You’re just being obstinate. It’s like if you have 12 dollars in your bank account, and your family is like “we’re going to starve, at this rate,” and you’d be like “HOW SO? WE HAVE 12 DOLLARS, DUMBASS.”
Well, if someone breaks their leg in a freak accident, BOOM, there goes your entire future.
Now, plenty of people are broke without it being their fault. And I’m not saying it’s anyone’s fault that the Fediverse/Lemmy is currently too small to guarantee its survival…but that’s the fact. It’s too small to be safe. It’s INCREDIBLE that I am having to patiently explain this obvious shit to so many angry people.
EDIT: to be fair, I actually have every confidence that the Fediverse/Lemmy WILL show an increase in growth, and will probably survive, at least for several upcoming years. But some of y’all are like “NUUUUU, I THINK IT SHOULD STAY SMALL, THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.” Nah, man. It can’t stay this small. It’s not sustainable for it to stay this small.
What? You’re saying we need to grow faster because at.under 2k users a day we’ll die of old age to fast?
I straight up don’t understand the appeal of a bigger userbase here. More users isn’t inherently better, and will definitely introduce more issues and problem users that will tax our still developing and somewhat fragile platform. Wanting that “instantly” is just asking for the collapse of Lemmy, imo.
More users = more lifetime, for the platform. At the current level, I estimate that this platform will last about two years. Maybe three. Less, if some kind of significant problem occurs.
You’re right that the instant part could be dangerous. That could be the significant problem I just mentioned. But otherwise, Lemmy needs more users, desperately. All internet things have to grow or die. You can wish that wasn’t a fact, but it will remain a fact.
“Grow or die”. What a bunch of corporate bs. And throwing out made up “lifetimes” doesn’t lend you the legitimacy you think it does.
Lemmy doesn’t “desperately need” more users. What it needs is less of this nonsense.
I’m sorry, but I’m simply correct about this. If you come in here in about a year’s time, and there haven’t been any new posts in three weeks, you WILL leave the platform, too.
You won’t intend to. You won’t do it out of spite. You’ll just keep checking for new posts, less and less frequently, until you eventually give up.
Growth is THE ONLY WAY to prevent that situation. Does that mean Lemmy has to “go corporate” and start monetizing everything? No. Does that mean Lemmy has to become as huge as Reddit? No. I don’t want that. I don’t want this place to become so big that it inevitably repeats all the mistakes that Reddit made, over the years.
But the Lemmy/Fediverse platform absolutely does have to grow larger than this, in order to become a permanent, secure thing.
Feel free to explain why that “will” happen without infinite growth.
I just did. Allow me to repeat it:
If you come in here in about a year’s time, and there haven’t been any new posts in three weeks, you WILL leave the platform, too.
You won’t intend to. You won’t do it out of spite. You’ll just keep checking for new posts, less and less frequently, until you eventually give up.
Growth is THE ONLY WAY to prevent that situation.
THESE ARE FACTS. THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL.
EDIT: Also, I specifically said that the growth didn’t need to be infinite. But yeah, you go ahead and claim that I said that. Go ahead and just blatantly lie about what I said. Great intellectual honesty, right there.
So your explanation on why it will happen is that it will happen? You understand how nonsensical that is, right? YELLING that it’s a “fact” doesn’t make it so.
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS???
IF. YOU. COME. TO. THIS. PLATFORM. AND. THERE. HAVEN’T. BEEN. ANY. POSTS. FOR. WEEKS.
YOU. WILL. LEAVE.
That is a fact. if you deny it, you are simply insane. We do not currently have enough people to avoid a situation where there can suddenly be days/weeks of time with no new posts, and certainly no good ones.
If that happens, the community will die. It’s like I’m saying “if you let go of a bowling ball in Earth’s gravity, it will hit the floor,” and you’re like “BUT PROVE IT! HOW DO YOU KNOOOOOW THAT’LL HAPPEN???”
It’s bloody goddamned obvious. This community is BEYOND TEENY TINY SMALL, right now. This SubLemmy has 1.8 thousand people active per day. That’s 75 per hour. You can fit that many people into a mid-sized bus. IT’S NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE TO GUARANTEE CONTINUED EXISTENCE.
Scream all you want, you’ll never make me incorrect about this.
You realize that would literally cause a hug of death?
What part of “brace yourselves” are some of y’all not getting?
I am literally acknowledging that it’s not an unalloyed benefit that’s on the horizon, here.
But I also am not in control of what Reddit is about to do.
(edit: but just like with Winter/war coming, in GoT, you can also benefit from a crazy-ass situation)
