And if you don’t market at all, you are screwed.

Except for some very special cases, it is a necessary evil.

Look at Mister Moneybags over here with his heat proof oven.

What’s next, you’re going to tell us your freezer keeps ice from melting?!

Hell, many of the communities barely show up when you search within Lemmy!

I know there are places on this site that I have no idea where they are, and I’ve been here like 2 months now.

This is one of the biggest opportunities in recent years for a new social media platform to come up and establish itself and Lemmy seems to be totally squandering the opportunity. The fact that the active user count is dropping so fast, should be very worrying.

I think a lot of it has been mentioned by @rr7@lemmy.world, but it isn’t just what is here, but also what isn’t there. Namely the lack of posts in communities outside a handful of political ones. Social media should be some form of conversation and yet if you go to lots of the slightly more esoteric communities and there are few posts and even fewer replies to those posts. You’ll basically be talking to yourself if you want to talk about cars or the latest gadget or asking for help on some DIY project.

There are like 50,000 active users. That is the metric that matters above all else.

People that make an account and never post (which is where that 400,000 number you are referring to comes from) means next to nothing. If the number of active users continues to decrease, then this site will be dead, regardless of what the user count it.

There is the old cliche that during holiday dinner there is always that one right-wing uncle who never shuts the fuck about politics (these days being during Thanksgiving and how great Trump is). Everyone finds what this uncle is saying is cringe as hell.

Well, that’s kind of what Lemmy is becoming, but for the far-left.

If it is in a political community, it is one thing. And to a large degree, I might even agree with most left-of-center views.

But there is an endless stream of edgy pro-commie and similar posts and a dearth of other light-hearted posts to counter balance it. Almost all communities outside the ones listed above get no traffic, so there’s no point in trying to start a conversation about cars or DIY projects or electronics. Hell, even the NSFW communities on Lemmy are rather lame.

give up

No. That’s not what companies do.

BMW and Mercedes were the “leaders” in milking their customers and thus they got the most bad press. All BMW is doing is waiting until more companies start doing this and the whole idea of subscriptions in the car business becomes normalized to the public.

Unless consumers continue to shun this concept and the press blasts these companies for trying to push this nonsense, it will make a comeback in the years to come. Unfortunately, I simply do not think consumers will look at their long-term interests. Its like telling gamers not to pre-order the hottest upcoming releases because it encourages companies to release buggy software… all the pleading in the world ends up falling on deaf ears. Same too, I believe, will happen in the car market.

How high are you right now?

Is this CDawg??

Well I think y’all is as much southern as it is Texan. But what does my northern Yankee ass know? Just stay away from all them hicks.

If y’all spent as much time and energy on useless pronouns as y’all spent on advocating for universal healthcare, y’all could have gotten that last doctor visit paid for by y’alls gob’ment and not having to dip into y’alls savings.

Y’all need to check your priorities.

They are laughing at you, not with you.

…or - hear me out here - we all just stop using that asswipe’s platform?!?

Crazy, I know!

How is this not the top comment??

Italian… “elbow turn”

I’d be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.

For what benefit?

Rather have a plug pull out of an outlet than it ripping the cable out of the housing of the equipment it is in or cause other damage. But more importantly, we do have connectors that let you screw in a plug (or have a latch or other locking mechanism). Very common on higher voltage equipment in industrial applications. But again, what is the benefit for day-to-day use for regular devices? Plugs don’t just fall out of outlets on a regular basis. This isn’t really a problem that needs solving.

“I remember when they were still called Tweets”

That worked. At least I believe it did.

I got no problems joining a community, but I don’t even see HOW to do so. Usually I see a “subscribe” button or something, but I have to sign in. But I am already signed in to Lemmy. Does this mean creating a whole new account? I don’t get how and why these various sites don’t work together.

There are sooooo many Linux folks here, it’s crazy. Which is fine if that’s what they want to use, but yeah this site has certain groups that overwhelm others.