There are plenty of Redditors who should switch but just haven't yet because 3rd party apps still kinda work. Then again I also agree Lemmy doesn't need the average big sub enjoying Redditor just yet.

Can we just poach the remaining good ones?

I.e. the authors, the quality OC creators, and the people from niche hobby subreddits.

A counterpoint to the idea that the clunkiness that keeps away the masses should be Threads. A couple of days in and they are full with hate and bullshit because they had millions right away. I know the format is different from here, but I think the concept still applies.

Slow steady growth of people who have to think critically to really use the platform is better than explosive growth from every ignoramus signing up to spew drivel. At least that's my perception of it all.

This is a good point. As a 16 year Reddit user, the digg migration was really the beginning of the long end. Going slow is indeed the best way. And honestly, being big is not even necessarily a good thing for this type of community.

I think one of the major issues is how poorly we're doing at directing people to individual instances.

Lemmy works fine if we have a bunch of good / stable instances created for a variety of different topics and users spread out. All the kinks and things do need to be worked out, but at the same time there needs to be a better way of load-balancing people to different instances. Either that or the entire backend needs to be re-written to allow better load-balancing. I can't imagine lemmy.world can survive another major influx of users.

We're just a small small portion of the reddit userbase. Lemmy will explode if there's ever a mass migration.

Yup. This place is currently fine for people who can stomach the quirks and missing features and you don't want them to come, feel overwhelmed about how it isn't truly like reddit yet and then leave and not consider coming back

What’s the deal with that sub? People keep mentioning it.

You boomed them (4x)

Seriously, I don't want to convince ANYONE that's still over there to move over here. The reason discourse here is so good is because people here are either intelligent, principled, motivated, forward-looking, or a combination of the four. We don't need the dregs. Maybe unpopular opinion, but with trash people we will get trash content. Reddit was trending that way long before the API meltdown, and Lemmy moderation is not ready for that.

And lemmy.world’s c/atheism isn’t as big of a “religious people bad reee” circlejerk as r/atheism, it seems a lot more nuanced in its criticisms of religion and mostly takes the “love the non-forceful believer, hate the belief” approach. I really don’t want to see that change, the neckbearded assholes on its original reddit version are a big reason why we’re hated. I also appreciate lemmy.ml and lemmygrad being considered laughingstocks for their tankieness, as opposed to everyone who dares criticize them for that being downvoted to oblivion and screeched at by wealthy 13-year-old Americans who just discovered politics and think they’re communist just because they say “comrade” every 5 seconds, know 2 russian words (both of which are obscenities) and “bravely” blasted the soviet anthem in class and then crying on reddit about how they got bullied for telling that one kid of ukrainian descent about how their great-grandparents were time traveling slave owners who deserved it.

Exactly -- more users are (most of the time) a bad idea. Let's keep it a niche.

A slow, steady transfer would be best. We get the communities, without losing the improved netiquette.

I used to read those as a little kid decades ago because 'cartoons' (which is exactly why they make them) but even then I knew that dude was off his rocker.