If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there’s hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.

I disagree.

It is more important to stay true to yourself, than open the gates to the flooding of new content. That is the only way to satisfy existing users and avoid that the platform loses it's "core" or soul in the long term. It might be unpopular, but if you prefer the PieFed or Mbin approach, you know, you can always just go there? What's stopping you? Everybody should try to find the platform that's best for their personal approach to things, i think.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair, I'm typing this to you on Lemmy from myself on PieFed, and have been this whole time.:-)

If we want to attract more users

I see that not everyone wants this platform to grow, but I also see many people that do want it to grow.The "if" in my sentence was meant to target the latter group.