Why YSK: We have a significant number of users now, and yet the amount of content to scroll through is still fairly small. This is because not all users are the same, and while the majority prefer to lurk, and a much smaller minority prefer to comment, the percentage that really likes making posts, memes, art, rants, videos etc is extremely small.

One way that we can all assist with this is to simply make content ourselves. But even if you don’t want to do that, you can still help by finding productive creators elsewhere on the internet and telling them about us.

Many reddit users are still simply unaware that we exist. They don’t know that there is a community of consumers here, waiting for content. They don’t know that if you can navigate reddit, then you can navigate this. Lemmy is just not as complicated as it can sound at first.

So, if you want, simply invite them. Give them a link to a community down here that would fit the content they like to produce, and let them know we’d love to have them. Because we really would love to have them. Let them know that you, as a fan, would love to see them here. After all, wouldn’t you?

Thanks for reading.

  • @speaker_hat
    2•1 year ago

    In the context of professional content creators, they make money from their content.

    Maybe a for-profit fediverse instance will be able to pay them and make it work.

    Or maybe they can share their content both here and on paid social media, as a kind of donation to the whole.

    Actually, I’m kinda satisfied with the fact that the fediverse isn’t commercialized and monitized (yet?). The content isn’t addicting, you don’t get hits of dopamine when watching the content here, it feels like the good old forum days, an adventure.

    Anyway, I agree that more quality content will lead to more engagement in the community, thanks for sharing and the heads-up.

    • Labototmized
      1•1 year ago

      I’m very satisfied as well. It feels like a small group of people just hanging out and the negativity is almost nonexistent - in my experience so far. I feel like with a mass of people like Reddit that the negativity kinda bubbles to the top.

      • @cashews_win@lemmy.world
        2•1 year ago

        I feel like my brain is detoxing since coming here. In the literal and figurative sense.

        1. Addiction - I’d degenerated to just doom-scrolling reddit and rarely commenting cos the top 3 comments were unfunny puns with 12,000 others so it never felt worth it.
        2. Regaining Self - I’d become so outwardly sanitised I didn’t realise I’d stopped swearing entirely in my older comments. I used to pepper my comments with fuck, bitch, shit, cunt as I do in the real woirld. But with heavy penalties against words like “faggot” (which is fucking idiotic for Brits) I’d started to self-censor to the point I wasn’t being “me”.

        I’m not saying I hope it turns into 4chan.

        But I do hope it grows into the early days of Reddit. Where people only downvoted things they found useless rather than disagreeable. There were less self-made echo chambers with ultra-sanitised ‘drone-like’ users where everyone had the same unfunny opinion.

    • @Candelestine@lemmy.worldOP
      1•1 year ago

      I like that the fediverse has the capability to encompass a huge variety of different instances, that can each control (I believe? Pls correct me if wrong) their interconnectedness with the rest of the structure.

      Personally I’m on lemmy.world, which I assume was named under the intention of becoming a large scale reddit analogue. We have the coolest name, at least. So I definitely hope for that high quality content reddit eventually became known for.

      You can find stuff like this in lots of places, if you just go there. Reddit was unique though.