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User count has plateaued at about 420K
Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K
Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.
Maybe because they’re tired of ads on reddit?
Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?
I can see it now:
“Ads suck. We’re ad-free forever. Join Lemmy.”
and
“He’ll never get us. Join Lemmy.” or “Don’t let him get you. Join Lemmy”
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I’m probably the weird one, but I specifically make it a point not to buy anything I’ve seen in any ad.
I do this, too. I’ve noticed local companies who advertise heavily on local TV/radio often charge 2x as much as the competition who don’t. And the aggressive advertisers are often arrogant and difficult to work with.
And it pisses me off when I see giant insurance companies spending millions on celebrity spokespeople and Superbowl ads. That represents a lot of denied claims.
Beyond all that: fuck reddit. Don’t give money to spez.
ads cost money to increase users to eventually profit from them later.
how would a decentralized lemmy profit from the increased users.
Any money spent on ads would be better off hiring more engineering resources and improving lemmy for the next time Reddit does something dumb prompting an exodus.
June is incoming. Some shit is bound to happen.
I’m probably ootl: why June specifically?
First quarter since IPO?
The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.
Because of the flat and nonprofit nature of Lemmy “users pooling money together” is the platform allocating budget.
Besides the reasons already mentioned by others here: not all users are the same, and we’re better off if some of them remain in Reddit. And yet this sort of advertisement is bound to attract people who are at the very least completely clueless (otherwise they wouldn’t be seeing ads), if not worse.
Instead I think that a better approach is to simply use the platform. Create posts, insightful comments, use the voting buttons. Also, discourage people from derailing non-political threads with political content.
The kind of people who would join this place are also the kind that would block ads.
Might as well, the bots, trolls and nazi’s are here now anyways.
What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond “line goes up”?
Niche communities
Niche communities really only have value when they grow organically. Trying to artificially inflate them won’t make them better.
I find Lemmy is better with fewer users just like Reddit used to be.
I kinda miss a few subs but they’ve been replaced by new things I discovered here.
The websites can coexist and users can do as we please.
I think just trying to gather any redditor is a bad idea, there are really bad twisted redditors.
No
I get the idea. I’d like to see more users on Lemmy too but I don’t think ads are the way to go. The best bet is probably more OC content and questions being answered as I’ve started seeing Lemmy post appear in Google searches.
I would love to see a collection of donations for Lemmy to get more developed which I think would be a much better use than ads.
I think currently the best way to get more users is word of mouth. For now…
I don’t want users who come over due to ads.
I actually think users who click ads are probably the ones who most need to learn about the alternatives!
yeah good for them but not for me.
lol fair. Whats good for me is more people educated on the benefits of open source!
No. We should not give them our money.
If anything then we should post more links to relevant original Lemmy content on other platforms.
OC is needed and should then shared on Reddit. But Reddit has changed to incentivize content posted on Reddit, so any OC will probably be stolen.
Nah, fuck that. This place is already too much like reddit.
It will be like reddit for a bit, then new instances will spin up and we’ll still have the choice the fedeiverse offers
Fight enshittification through enshittification? Not really a good idea, if you ask me.
I wouldn’t put it passed r*ddit to accept the transaction then only push them to some group that makes them look bad so if that group leaves they can claim they successfully cleaned up their platform.
Do not give Reddit money.
