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It's tricky - I want it to grow, but I don't want to lose the culture we have here. Having run forums 20+ years ago, I know that keeping that balance of culture and growth is super difficult.
Every time, you hit a critical point and suddenly it's a site of random strangers with no community feeling. Reddit hit that point over a decade ago. I don't want to repeat that here if we can avoid it.
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, you need enough content being created to provoke discussion.
I don't feel we have enough content at the minute. I reckon the active population needs to double. Maybe we need to give away stubbie coolers.
Maybe bumper stickers? What about..
'Lemmy Happens'
"Don't follow me, I'm a Lemming"
"If you can read this, then you're not on Lemmy."
"... unless you're on your phone, which you shouldn't be because you're driving."
Everyone here is a stranger to me, but i never look at the names of people i engage with.
This is where the avatars come in. I don't pay much attention to the usernames, either. But those little avatars stick in your mind and you start to remember people.
Yes, everyone is still a stranger, but that doesn't mean there isn't community.
I forgot about avatars, i use connect and they don't show up unless i go into peoples profiles.
Voyager (and Connect by the sounds) don't display avatars or custom usernames so you lose that bit of customisation in at least some of the apps.
I think I prefer it. Avatars are usually bad anime anyway. I think mines a ghost face lady.
Huh. You and @Aussiemandeus have probably just answered why I keep defaulting back to Jerboa. I have most of the Lemmy clients installed, and cycle through them. I usually use Jerboa for aussie.zone - I thought that was because it was the first one I had. Now I think it's for the avatar support.
Sync also has an option to enable avatars. I can't use any client that doesn't have avatars available. I'm too used to identifying people by their avatars... and now emojis and OP/admin tags.
Aaaaand Sync has become my default app.
I'll probably give that one money, because I trust they'll actually incorporate mod tools at some point.