this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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I don't want lemmy to be as popular as reddit as the signal to noise ratio was really bad.. Way too much noise.
I do want smaller communities that are on reddit to have a lemmy counterpart.
With the userbase we have now, there's not enough active communities. We don't need to be as big as reddit but we need to attract more user that are not just lurkers
Indeed. But that comes with time if we keep on improving content engaging users and all that. Be a welcoming place.
This. The more popular it gets, the more people come, the more trolls and idiots are beneath them, the more toxic everything gets...
Advertisements and fake news will also skyrocket once the user bases are big enough to become adequate breeding grounds for them.
Exactly. The amount of /r/adviceanimals level pure shit content on Reddit is high, paired with the bots that repost things until they start hocking some crypto bullshit links.
But I have kept using Reddit for years because every once in a while, you see someone write thoughtful posts about some niche subject you didn't even know existed. That's always interesting.
Lemmy is at a state where it needs more users writing about things that interest them.
Relay Pro just went to subscription, so the last 3rd party Reddit app is gone. I will probably read Lemmy much more on mobile from now on and hope it picks up steam.