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.
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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.
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?
If old age was the only thing people ever died of, you really would have zinged me, there.
But alas, sweet summer child, none of us are guaranteed perfect health and good conditions, until we're 100. And, as I've been trying to make clear, dying is just the most extreme reason that someone might stop frequenting a platform.
If the 9.5 per 1000 annual death rate is enough to make any impact on the population of these communities, what about other stuff? What if there are some days when the servers don't work right, and some people just drift away because of that? What if another competing platform shows up and splits the community?
Again: a rough average of 2k per community is simply too small. It's not enough to be safe, for the future. Remember that 20 or 30 thousand concurrent users is just barely sniffing the upper levels of what is considered a small subreddit, back over on Reddit.
It's just ASTONISHING to me that I'm having to make this basic point, over and over and over and over again. Two thousand people can almost be crammed into a couple of bigass airplanes. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY "yeah, I guess we could use a few more people."
Why is that so fucking hard for some of you fuckers? I'm about to lose my shit, with this fucking conversation.