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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Unpopular opinion: I hope lemmy remains niche. Mainstream social media brings mainstream bullshit with it (trolls, nazis, low effort posters, bots, attempts at monetization leading to enshittification). People who are wanting a reddit clone, you're in luck, reddit still exists
we aren't "competing". We aren't shilling for an IPO. We aren't trying to emulate commercial social media. We don't need 20% annual growth - or even significantly more users. We just need civil discussion forums without vitriol being deliberately injected to maximize ad impressions. On the fediverse, we are not the product.
@animist Twitter is mainstream. Instagram is mainstream.
Reddit was nowhere as mainstream as you might think. Outside of US.
It had a nice balance between being niche but having enough content.
Atleast that's what I feel
On the spectrum of niche to mainstream, reddit is a lot closer to Twitter than it is to Lemmy