Number doesn’t matter, quality and engagement does. If people make an effort to keep engaging with posts and leaning in, this place will be good no matter the user count. As it is, 100k or so active users seem like enough to keep the flow of posts fresh, but not enough for them to be populated with lots of comments
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it not user driven, what should it be driven by? i don’t think i understand your sentiment here.
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The best part about reddit was a community for everything with users with experience that could answer your question. Whether I needed help configuring a router, help worth a plumbing question, or advice on hiking boots I could find an answer either by searching our posting out I needed something more specific. Number of users helps build that knowledge pool, but so far I prefer the community here much more.
I posted this comment and never would’ve on reddit lol
This is what I was going to say. More users means more knowledge, diversity and depth of content, but also brings more garbage along with it. Meaning more effort for the moderators to filter, and more responsibility on all of us to up/down vote based on real information value rather than just emotional knee jerk.
Bigger. I hate that mentality I see on Mastodon where they want to fuck up the network to keep it small for minorities or whatever the dumb reason. More people, more content, and more people who have social media freedom. Decentralization is healthy and freedom, and I think it should downright replace modern social media entirely.
The more the merrier. Yes, there will be more shit content, but there will be more quality content and engagement. Small platforms tend to die or become an echo chamber.
I want Lemmy to replace Reddit completely
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I remember almost two years ago seeing more reposts than ever on Reddit, and how the top comments were never original. Made me reminiscent of 2015-era reddit when it was popular enough for mindless content, but not just another social media site. I want lemmy to be like that
I would like Lemmy to still gain in popularity, the subs I’m subscribed to are still pretty dead, and I’m still going back to Reddit for some specific band related subs.
Definitely don’t think it needs to be near as big as Reddit though, the reposts to whore for karma, and overdone shit-posting and bots that come from something that big are not missed.
I think the fewer people subjected to secret algorithms the better.
I’d prefer a slow but steady rise instead of explosive one. Instance like Lemmy.world just couldn’t take the heavy load any further without Lemmy fixing the issue(iirc there’s a bug causing high load with no apparent reason).
As for the growth, idk, i feels like lemmy cannot realistically pull majority of Reddit user unless Lemmy also turn to reddit, like have the feature that appeal to general masses. So i think it’s much better to remain low while grow steadily. Not like we have the choice tbh.
I think thats right. The reason I got fed up with reddit is because I realized I was arguing with teenagers. I couldn’t be sure, but my gut told me a lot of the time the reason the person was being entirely unreasonable was because they were trying to “win” an argument, rather than talk about something.
My concern w/ Lemmy is the same- if it becomes too common and popular, it will just have everyone on the internet on it, and very young people are very on the internet
Yeah, but it already happened here, after all this place house the refugee from the blackout
I fear to admit I am, myself a refugee :(
I became interested in mastodon as soon as musk bought twitter. I knew I needed to get off reddit and when the protests started, I made my sub private and haven’t been back since
Both. I think the general federated thread universe is going to be very general. And then you’re going to have instances where you talk about your niche content. And those communities can coexist in the same architecture. This growth period is very important for the ecosystem, nailing down discovery, reputation, spam control, we’re going to have to go through those growing pains just like Reddit did in the past.
Would you had asked me that half of a year ago, I say no. However, nowadays, Lemmy seems to be alive and useable. So yeah
The way it is right now is super nice, good engagement, not a ton of extremism, overall it definitely has a sense of community that reddit never had for me after the early “narwhal bacons” phase
Federation means that we can maybe just keep it up perpetually moving from any servers we dislike
Towards the end a vast number of Reddit users ended up being bots, or used for spam of other kinds of manipulation. And for the rest the majority were karmawhores that didn’t drive engagement or provided any constructive content. The federation can be big, but keep Lemmy instances small and keep the content fresh. Promote diversification.
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Bigger better. More eyes, more crowds, more resources, more anonymity. Um, and better OC porn.
For now id settle for just being able to curate my feed better but it’s exhausting
