First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better.

Having said that, it would be better if lemmy’s userbase were much bigger. There are many, many, interesting communities that are basically dead. We need a bigger userbase to drive some content to those communities.

If person A wants to discuss topic X, but there are barely any people with whom to discuss topic X, person A will go back to the usual for-profit corporations to do just that. This is obviously not good, for obvious reasons: just look around.

And an equally important point: for profit services, such as reddit, need to die. The userbase create the content and a select few get rich from it? Fuck them.

So the question is:

  • In your opinion, what can we do to increase the userbase?
  • zikzak025@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 days ago

    I think people just miss their niche interest communities.

    For example, I love Elden Ring, but !eldenring@lemmy.world hasn’t had any new posts in almost a year. Meanwhile the Elden Ring subreddit has a bunch of posts just from the last few minutes.

    Still not enough to make me go back to Reddit, but I admit it’s something I miss and something that just can’t be recreated without more people.

    • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Yeh I think that too. But agree wouldn’t go back. I just have to be satisfied with more observing.

      • zikzak025@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        Thanks, count me as a new happy subscriber!

        To be honest, Elden Ring is the only Souls game I’ve played and so it’s the only one of any real interest to me for now, but I am appreciative of the tags used in the post titles that allow me to filter out the content from other games I’m not interested in seeing. Glad to see content is alive somewhere!