How about instead of worrying about making it more popular we concentrate on making it better?
Eliminate all the shitty worthless content and spammy replies that people brought over with them from the shit hole that shall not be named and focus our efforts on creating quality content that users (particularly the ones that are already here) actually enjoy and engage with.
I agree. More users don’t necessarily make discussions better. 90% of comments on reddit are useless.
That being said you do need a certain amount of people for a discussion, and the more people you have the likelihood of someone being educated in the subject grows.
more people you have the likelihood of someone being educated in the subject grows.
It goes beyond that. If you have experts who want to use social media to grow their audience, they will go where the audience is. If this network continues to stagnate or tries too hard to keep the bottom 90% of the users, it will never attract the top 1% which are crucial to its survival.
Reddit started from nothing and became popular over a long period of time. If we set the values we want to express now, if it becomes more popular organically later down the line it will be filled with people who share those values and hopefully will never become reddit 2.0
It’s not just that Reddit migrants tend to bring shitty content but also shitty behavior - dogpiling, partisan circle jerking/navel gazing, etc. all make for a terrible discussion experience.
How about instead of worrying about making it more popular we concentrate on making it better?
Eliminate all the shitty worthless content and spammy replies that people brought over with them from the shit hole that shall not be named and focus our efforts on creating quality content that users (particularly the ones that are already here) actually enjoy and engage with.
That’s my two cents on it anyway.
I agree. More users don’t necessarily make discussions better. 90% of comments on reddit are useless.
That being said you do need a certain amount of people for a discussion, and the more people you have the likelihood of someone being educated in the subject grows.
90% of everything is crap.
It goes beyond that. If you have experts who want to use social media to grow their audience, they will go where the audience is. If this network continues to stagnate or tries too hard to keep the bottom 90% of the users, it will never attract the top 1% which are crucial to its survival.
Exactly, one point of lemmy is not too be capitalist bullshit where shareholders need to see numbers going up.
It is not capitalist, network effects are a basic reality of running a site like Reddit / Lemmy where users produce the content.
Reddit started from nothing and became popular over a long period of time. If we set the values we want to express now, if it becomes more popular organically later down the line it will be filled with people who share those values and hopefully will never become reddit 2.0
It’s not just that Reddit migrants tend to bring shitty content but also shitty behavior - dogpiling, partisan circle jerking/navel gazing, etc. all make for a terrible discussion experience.