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>No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy. From the point of view of active Lemmy users, this is not a problem. Casual users don't contribute, so
by darthrupert 3y ago
>No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.
From the point of view of active Lemmy users, this is not a problem. Casual users don't contribute, so they're essentially just leeches from the point of view of the overall service. Kinda same thing as with pure FOSS. Non-contributing users are tolerated, but they are not really useful in any way.
- perryizgr8 3y ago> Non-contributing users are tolerated, but they are not really useful in any way. Not at all. In fact it is the non contributing users that give value to your product. Imagine Firefox but without any end users. Similarly, reddit is valuable mostly because of the massive number of people viewing content on it. Youtube is valuable because of the huge number of people who just watch videos, never make anything. The content creators, or contributors, will flock to wherever the non contributors are.
- darthrupert 3y ago>Imagine Firefox but without any end users. Firefox isn't FOSS in this argument in the way I mean, because they extract actual monetary value from their users.
- zajio1am 3y agoAs a FOSS developer, i must say that for me, users as a whole (in contrast to a community around the project) are the primary purpose of developing FOSS. And even if i just looked on non-contributing users in a utilitarian way, they are still useful for project brand recognition.