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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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Especially since they don't know anything about it yet - they just know that some capitalist is brushing off an old trademark to create something with shining new AI moderation, and somehow they manage to get their hopes up rather than looking to existing functional alternatives.
Then again, I think this place benefits from a slow and steady growth rate. If 500 000 disgruntled Reddit users decided to move in tomorrow we wouldn't know where to put them. I would rather see us grow through individual communities setting up camp here and making the place their own because they like it here, not a bunch of users coming all at once because Reddit decided to do some thing or another.
ikr. I'd rather be in a cafe than a cafeteria. Cafeterias are only really useful if you want to advertise to people.
Me too, but just because the platform is a cafeteria doesn't mean individual communities can't be a cafe. With a large userbase comes the growth of niche communities, which is currrently what I miss most from Reddit.
yeah, i really miss my local sub from my city. it was a nicer way to share and learn about stuff happening around me than just the local paper. i also wonder how the duplicates between instances will pan out. the fragmentation of pretty small communities isn’t great imo.
i am happy to be here with all you losers tho. thanks for having me.
Yeah, that can be problematic. I put together a guide on consolidation over on !fedigrow@lemm.ee.
Consolidations are happening, see !fedigrow@lemm.ee
While I agree that we couldn't accommodate 500k new users overnight, we could probably accommodate 50k new users, provided they were spread across many instances (and not just lemmy.world).
While slow and steady growth is better, I think we should take any situation where Reddit messes up as an opportunity to onboard more users.
For sure, I'm a big fan of the effort you're making here!
There's just a huge difference between reaching out to a few users and communities telling them there is a better alternative, and a significant portion of the Reddit hive mind suddenly deciding that they want to give Lemmy a try. So as frustrated I am to see people dream about Digg, I'm also kinda cool with it.
According to Fediverse observer, Lemmy has grown by 7400 active monthly users this month (since March 1). That's almost 300 users per day, compared to very little growth the months before. The users who joined the last 25 days make up 13.5% of all our active users. Pretty cool.