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To continue with tortured metaphors: we can always go to the supermarket and cook our own food. If the content on the communities I’m interested is low, I can go to reddit and repost it here, or I can take a look at one my RSS feeds and see if I can find anything relevant, etc.

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Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure but if I wanted to do that, I’d just… doordash… or something…
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Okay I think the poor metaphor has had enough (read: I’m too dumb to carry it on). And I agree, but if I was just after new content I’d just go to reddit or my RSS feed and be content with that content. Part of the goal in transitioning to lemmy is to find new sources of content on lemmy, which just requires effort in sifting thru things like /all until you’ve built up enough to reasonably contribute to / consume / comment / etc. on.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Part of the goal in transitioning to lemmy is to find new sources of content on lemmy.
  
  I understand, but bootstrapping a whole new network is hard. Lemmy is reporting ~55k monthly active users and to do that it’s even counting people who mere vote as an activity. Following the 1/9/90 rule, we should expect ~550 active posters here, which is simply not enough to sustain all the long tail of interests out there.
  
  All I’m saying is that it would be better for everyone if we focused more on the active participation (posting content that is relevant to you and your interests) than a passive “let me play some slot machine and get a dopamine hit” that is browsing /all.
  
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  - Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sure, contributing is better for communities than consuming. No argument there.
    
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