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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by perryizgr8 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:18AM (#36547963)
> 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.

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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by darthrupert on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:26AM (#36551126)
>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.

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