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We are currently around 50k monthly active users. What do you think could lead to the next newcomers wave? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few ideas from the top of my head

Flairs that can be allowed to filter content in a community
Major online communites (can be subreddits, or other communities) moving to Lemmy
Reddit removing old.reddit
Reddit banning people using VPNs (already happening, see [email protected] )
Lemmy becoming the reference source of knowledge for a certain domain

Second point is probably crucial, but I don't see any major subreddit wanting to move here. StarTrek is the exception more that the rule.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mainly agree with this. We're in much the same situation as a small local shop vs a Walmart. We can't compete on the same things, so we need to focus on the experience.

It's the reason I'm very big on the take we should begin reigning in behavior of the user base and return to being a more welcoming and respectful place. If we don't build a better environment than Reddit, Facebook, X, etc, what do we have? And if we can't do it when it's this small, it'll either never get bigger or be too big to tackle.

I don't think taking more users from Reddit is realistic. Anyone who hasn't left by now isn't interested in leaving. We should keep doing what we're doing and embrace the audience we have. It's slower growth, but we can keep a better focus on quality and experience IMO.

Making original content and sharing it with friends in other places is what we can do right now. A lot of us in here are familiar with each other's names by now, so we're building awareness of what we're doing here, it's just going to take time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s the reason I’m very big on the take we should begin reigning in behavior of the user base and return to being a more welcoming and respectful place. If we don’t build a better environment than Reddit, Facebook, X, etc, what do we have? And if we can’t do it when it’s this small, it’ll either never get bigger or be too big to tackle.

I agree

Anyone who hasn’t left by now isn’t interested in leaving.

I'm not so sure. There is currently some debate in https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/, more than usual, you see that some people are on the fence. Other people might have never heard of Lemmy ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Awareness of our "brand" could definitely be improved yet. 50k of people on the internet isn't even a drop in the bucket.

I haven't been to Reddit since the 3rd party ban other to try to search for product reviews, so I'm totally clueless as to the state of things there and I avoid most Lemmy posts about Reddit as well as it's too close to stalking an ex for me. We broke up for a reason and we should leave it at that!

I'll welcome anyone looking to come here to have a pleasant time though. I don't want to get all gatekeepy about this place though, as it's here for everyone, but I'd definitely prefer that they're people that conduct themselves politely, and not the standard Reddit or 4chan stereotype behavior, but that's what happens if/when this place ever starts getting more mass migration from other platforms.

I really wish Beehaw would have played out a bit different. I think they had good intent, but clamped down on things a bit too fast and they cut off their growth too early. For me at least. I haven't been on there in a few months, but when they talked about leaving Lemmy, I just couldn't invest the effort in jumping ship again as I was starting to enjoy what I was fostering here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I really wish Beehaw would have played out a bit different. I think they had good intent, but clamped down on things a bit too fast and they cut off their growth too early.

Definitely. They really put a lot of efforts in building their community, with their documented moderation guidelines etc., but cutting themselves off LW and SJW is just too much...