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If everyone was spread out onto different instances, and communities were based all over the fediverse, the decisions of one instance would be less impactful. (media.kbin.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by Roundcat@kbin.cafe to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] RespectMyAuthoriteh@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Let's put things in perspective. Lemmy.world currently has a "whopping" 127k users. That's fewer users than the moderately successful niche subreddit I created on Reddit has, which is just one of several thousand subreddits over 127k in size. Not to mention the tens of thousands of Instagram, youtube, facebook, tiktok, etc., pages with more than 127k subscribers. Saying lemmy.world has "a lot of power" at this point seems like a real stretch to me.

[-] WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

The amount of power they have over the direction of Lemmy comes from the percentage of Lemmy users they have not the total user count.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

think about it relatively

[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fewer than a successful niche reddit

Maybe by subscriber count (the bad count, never use sub count).

Truly niche reddits have 5k readers at most. And even then, readers includes lurkers, while lemmy users ONLY includes people making comments.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Their "power" would be relative to other lemmy instances, not absolute.

The comparison to reddit isn't really fair, as by the time they were getting thousands of subs with more than 127k subscribers, they had been bought by Conde Nast, and were also making money through ads.

These servers don't just magically run for free, someone is paying for it. And I don't know about you, but I don't want lemmy to change in order to appear more appealing to advertisers.