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.
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.
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.