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submitted 1 year ago by meisme@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I think the Redditors joining Lemmy will certainly change the culture, both for the better and for the worse. Comments got pretty toxic on Reddit while I feel like the toxic comments on Lemmy were rare.

BUT, that could be a sample size thing. I'm curious to see if the ratio of toxic comments per active user would have been the same.

[-] 777@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

More people = more problems I am certain but this is a social network and without people it will fail. We must all make an effort to be the change that we want to see in the world.

I don't foresee a problem in the immediate future aside from higher server load, but in terms of culture, only people who believe in a new social network will be willing to join.

In 5 years however when this is a great place to be, a large number of people will join who don't respect the legacy. The departure from Digg to Reddit felt like this too, I hope that the federation aspect will ensure this is longer lived.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

remember... federation is your friend. federation gives you the freedeom to change house (instance) and/or look for better communities on any other federated instance from your own instance.

[-] w00tsy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Are you actually able to migrate accounts between instances?

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

currently, no - but it is on the roadmap. moving house atm means creating a new account on another instance.

[-] fuser@quex.cc 2 points 1 year ago

not yet on Lemmy, although you can on Mastodon, so it's doable.

[-] amki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately Mastodon does not migrate your toots so... it's pretty useless.

The most important thing, your history, is not being moved. It's nice that subscribers get migrated but that's like 20% of the job.

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