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"
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.
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.
What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond "line goes up"?
No. You don't want people's first exposure to the fediverse to be something annoying.
Also, anyone with a modicum of understanding is already blocking ads. Do we really want the dregs of the internet that don't do so?
A study just came out that was posted in Hexbear showing at least 15% of Reddit content is corporate botting so we should just have some fun with LLMs and AstroTurf it instead like everyone else is doing
I'd posit those numbers are much, much higher, and some guys who used to do our Megathreads over in r/Android now keep getting random bots commenting against months, even *removed externally hosted image* posts - https://archive.is/OmW0f
I spotted em years ago over in their many test subreddits and reddit actually outsourced them as a QA testing.
Lemmy(software) shouldn't buy ads but I don't think there's any reason an individual instance shouldn't buy ads if they choose to. Whether or not that will bring users that are worth having, is a different story entirely.
Up to you. But i wouldnt waste the time or money unless you want your site's iq to fall at an accelerated rate
Personally, I would never give Reddit a single penny. Their garbage CEO does plenty to get people to leave and I am sure it will keep like that.
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.
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 think just trying to gather any redditor is a bad idea, there are really bad twisted redditors.
Might as well, the bots, trolls and nazi's are here now anyways.
