I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong.
the way it's going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.
So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.
edit: source for the graph
It's kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it's tough to sell them on that unless they already like what's being talked about. I think it's probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy's popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.