• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You need to switch up how you view it. Go to

    • Hot
    • 6 hour
    • Scaled
    • Active

    That’ll get you an hour or so depending on what instance you’re on. Your instance decides what you see on All and Hot. That’s why it is kind of important which instance you choose. If one gets too big, it controls what most people see.

    According to the recent stats, there are millions of people here every day. That means you’re not seeing them.

        • OpenStars@piefed.social
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          1 year ago

          Treating it seriously, I think that people are interested in growth because:

          1. if we aren’t growing, then due to attrition we are slowly dying
          2. people seem to want a little bit more content, especially about niche topics that currently we have to keep going back to Reddit for bc that’s where it is at
          3. solving the problems inhibiting growth may make us better overall and our experiences here more enjoyable not only for new people but the existing userbase as well - so here growth is the diagnostic indicator of deeper phenomena

          So it is not to feed the advertising machine and stockholder valuation, but even with the profit factor removed there are others that remain.