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.
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.
Replacing users who leave isn’t growth though, it’s sustenance. With the current user count there are posts much more frequently than one every 3 weeks, and I don’t see how that would change from lack of growth (not shrinking)
You’re just being obstinate, like several other people in this thread. I’m saying that there aren’t currently enough users to weather any kind of big problem, like an extended server outage, or anything like that.
It’s like if you’re supporting a family of four, and you consistently run all the way out of money, every month, with somewhere between twenty bucks and negative three dollars left in your bank account. And your spouse says to you “hey, we’re in major trouble, here. We need to start growing some savings, or else we’re eventually going to run into medical expenses or repair bills that will completely destroy us.” Annnnd you would apparently respond with something like “SHUT UP, DUMBASS. WE HAVE EXACTLY AS MUCH MONEY AS WE NEED, EVERY MONTH.”
I don’t pretend to know any kind of exact number, in terms of how many average daily users this platform needs, in order to be safe from future erosion. But it’s more than a couple thousand. I think that’s safe to say. Mid-sized Reddit communities have about 40,000 concurrent users, at any given time.
I just don’t think I’m being as unreasonable as you think I’m being, when I say the Fediverse/Lemmy needs to get at least somewhat bigger.