Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?
I had my wife join, and she likes it, but laments the slow pace of new material in the communities.
I agree, it’s all about participation.
The problem with that (from my own experience at least), is that this platform is even more politically homogenous than even reddit or Twitter ever were.
If participation is the goal, you’re (as a community), going to have to be a little more accepting of people who don’t think exactly like you do. (Not you specifically, I mean you in the community sense of the word).
This is a similar problem something like truth social will have as well, catering to only one extreme political view (truth social - far right and lemmy far-left) isn’t a recipe for growing participation.
Now, if lemmy users were more of an open minded community who were capable of nuanced conversation and tolerance without jumping immediately to the most extreme reaction imaginable this would be able to grow.
No one really wants to hang out with a bunch of teenaged extremists. Unfortunately, that’s kind of what lemmy is