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”
My reasons against that
Not to mention that Reddit will probably shut that down
That doesn’t mean we don’t do anything though. A number of subreddits continue to have automod messages and pinned posts directing people elsewhere. There are a lot of people on Reddit who WANT things to succeed here.
So some other ways to help.
On Reddit:
work with subreddits to set up parallel communities here, and ease the transition of people moving
find subreddits that benefit from backups / fediverse communities, and work with them to improve things
On the fediverse:
write up guides and update existing resources to help newcomers
Post interesting content on the fediverse. People use things they get value out of, and new people won’t stay if things are quiet here. Set up an RSS feed, share the cool videos you see, write about your thoughts on casual communities.
Specifically financial:
Donate to the development of a project you like. If you can, reoccurring donations provide stability for the developers to work on things.
Donate to the instances that are running the services and platforms
TLDR:
I do like your ad ideas nonetheless @zabadoh@lemmy.ml. If we were swimming in money, it could be more of a discussion
A near black screen with small text at the bottom would be fun. “Ads suck, so we removed one for you. Come to the Fediverse for ad-free social media”