Part of that is making it monetizable. Influencers can build huge followings (and make some cash) because existing platforms recommend their content to other users.

Mastodon devs have chosen not to provide recommendations and quote posts. That's reasonable, but it reduces the utility of the platform, and it cedes space to Twitter & co.

To my knowledge, the only creator that's exclusive to Lemmy is the unix surrealism author. Until it's easy to monetize content, we're gonna have a hard time attracting creators, and a hard time attracting users.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I hate the idea that everything should be monetised, that only gives us loong videos with laughing heads and so on "to keep you engaged".

We're here without all that crap and well the fediverse is definitely less active but it's content made by people because they like it, they believe in it. Not to shake the money tree.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

We wanna grow too and hopefully be a place with more authentic conversations (better anti-bot defenses) - hyperbolic to say “future’s at stake”?

I think truly delightfully UX would be very yuge. I should learn and contribute :)

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