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ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoA big part of having more substantial discussions is just having more people. 40k is a good number for active shit posting and stupid jokes, it’s way to small to have a community about hobbies or even most major metro areas. You need at least 2-3x more people active to at least start to get moderately specialized communities like pro sports. For something really niche, you probably need at least a million MaU.
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 1 year ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I think it’s part of the game and growing pains. You want high quality comments? Well you need more users, 75% of which will rarely post anything, 15% will spam low quality comments, and 10% might submit good posts and we’ll thought out comments. Those numbers are probably a little inflated, but you just need to frow the base and what we are looking for will eventually be there. There will just be a ton of other nonsense, but that’s the good part about upvote/downvotes and different ranking sorting systems.
It will take time, and a lot of people, for a long time will complain that Lemmy is becoming worse, while it slowly gets better.