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Do you think lemmy would be as popular as reddit? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Tuxinator@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no active here and tbh I see the trend of disappearing activity

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its been growing in average users ever since reddit started with the spez nonesense and im fine with average non-technical people using the service. I never once said they couldn't. It takes all kinds of people to make a community after all. I just personally don't like being called pretentious for stating an obvious fact about the nature of average people and think you're being an argumentative asshat that took personal offense to a general fact of life. Regardless of how much new people come in, it will always be a drop in the bucket compared to the ones who will stay behind no matter what. Just like youtube, it doesn't matter what they do to the users because they provide a convinent service with 100% uptime and that is most popular in userbase.

[–] quinnly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the vast VAST majority of average internet users are basically brain dead and want maximum convinence at any cost, including privacy and being treated right by the service as a user. They quite simply don't care what happens as long as they can still get their garbage content drip fed to them without any work, learning, or inconvinece on their part.

If you don't want to be called pretentious then maybe you shouldn't spout pretentious nonsense like this

(I highlighted the pretentious parts)

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is fair, I could have and should have used kinder and less insulting ways of phrasing it even if the overall message is about the same. I apologize for the pretentious dickishness on my part.

[–] quinnly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And I apologize for being an asshole in response. I would say that I hadn't had my morning coffee yet but I've been trying to hold myself more accountable so instead I'll blame my overall addiction to caffeine