Long term growth is necessary to keep any online community alive. Not necessarily accelerating growth. But if a community has less members coming in than the ones who leave over time it will eventually die, no matter what platform it’s on.
From what (admittedly little) I know about the fediverse I can’t see this being a good decision for Bee’s long term growth. I respect their stance but I simply think there isn’t enough content for small groups to sustain yet. Reddit thrives on a newsfeed style experience, if there’s nothing to scroll people won’t stay. The only reason I’m here is because I can scroll everything in all, which is how I found this post, for example.
Browsing for new content and communities is so much better here. Like, incredibly so. I don’t know if it’s just the lack of repost and karma bots or what but the quality of content is so much higher.
I’m a bit confused. is lemmy.world not meant for music? From what I gather lemmy.studio is a different instance which means I have to start a new account to make communities within it?