I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.
the way it’s going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.
So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.
edit: source for the graph


I felt I was being pretty specific about “the most popular”. If the most popular instance is dead, we got problems.
You said sign up to a random instance and subscribe to 50 most active instances. I assumed the second “instance” was a mistake because you dont subscribe to instances.