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More users isn't necessarily good.
Every time there's an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.
? Why's that not good?
Well on Lemmy the quality of content dropped. Low effort posts started becoming normalized. Lots of people entered who dont know what the Downvote button is for.
"when there were 0 users, the site was perfect"