Asklemmy

Bigger isn't necessarily better

1. Be friendly to other Lemmites. Encourage them to post and comment.
2. Post and comment whenever you can.
3. If you have niche hobbies or interests, try posting about them into an appropriate community.

Social networks and message boards get more popular as they get more users. Bring friendly and posting regularly should help us maintain the user base.

I personally enjoy that Lemmy isn't as popular as Reddit. It feels more home-grown and friendly because it's not as large. That being said, contributing to and engaging with the content you enjoy is a good start. Finding a niche here can be great and there are tons of interesting communities to contribute to!

Network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Lemmy’s largest influxes of users have been when Reddit does something unpopular enough to warrant people looking for other places. Same was true when Reddit became popular because Digg made bad decisions, or Facebook when MySpace did.

The answer is that Lemmy almost assuredly will never be as popular, but at least its future is not dictated by the profits of a company, or censorship imposed by or on that company.

The best we can do is make Lemmy a viable alternative (it is) and ensure it is of a high quality.

Anything that gets that big turns into a shithole. Enshitification will find a way. So just don't.

Have you looked at shit like lemmy.world? Why in the name of Allah would you want more of that shit on here?

But why ?

Why would you want that? I think of lemmy as an old message board. I think it's better that way.

Why would we want to do that? Please don't.

Why?

I'd say concentrate on quality over quantity.

There only thing Reddit has over Lemmy is their awesome niche subreddits. Outside of that they have nothing and being more like Reddit is not something we want. With attention comes heavier moderation.

Ooooh, no thank you.

Have you seen that place? Gives me the icks.

I would rather not. Lemmy is not Reddit.

Careful what you wish for.

Porn.

Like any type of media, you win by getting porn on your side. Bring the NSFW content creators over and everyone else will follow.

There's admittedly some things I miss from Reddit like bigger niche communities, but I would never want this to get as popular as reddit, because then you'll end up just getting the same problems as reddit down the road and we'll all have to migrate again. And who wants that?

As popular as that swamp?
Oh fuck no dude. Let's fucking not

Going to echo the others and say please don't. It's good like it is.

Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.

Please no

Keep the light alive as Reddit further enshittifies

Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.

I think the ideal would be not how to make it "like Reddit", but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit.. One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.

I understand the motive, I too am on some niche communities that sometimes didn't have posts for months. For that i use reddit (but the old interface). Now let's see your question.

No, we can't make lemmy as popular as reddit, but we can turn lemmy into a reddit twin, and make it popular, by pushing only one instance like .world.

The social media that popularised fediverse the most was mastodon, and yet it's because they pushed mastodon.social as the default, making a large part of the userbase think that mastodon is only mastodon.social.

People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons "join", "login", or "post". They are lost on join-lemmy.org because they don't know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they'll prefer going back to their comfort zone.

But hey, social media experience enshittifies as the userbase gets bigger, and i came here by fleeing reddit so please don't

I don't really care. If it gets more popular, that's fine with me, but I'm fine with how it is now.

lemmy is better than reddit, popularity will ruin it.

Why do people always go for Reddit as this comparison? It's not even the most popular social media. Is it because the question "How can we make Lemmy as popular as Facebook" makes it clear why that isn't something the users would want?

we dont.

I don't think the majority of people here would be happy if that happened.

I don’t want lemmy to become as popular as Reddit

Keep bringing it up on Reddit.

When I'm on Reddit, which is only if I fully exhaust myself on Lemmy that day, and I see someone complaining about Reddit, I make a point to let them know about Lemmy.

Pornography & Video games (let's say Walkthroughs)