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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    1 year ago

    No, it likely won’t be as popular. Might be pretty quiet in general, unless (until…) Reddit shits the bed again or something else happens to boost adoption.

    I think maybe the design isn’t working ideally, it’s relatively complicated stuff and “federation politics” makes it infinitely worse. I think it’s going to be a hard sell for casual users.

    Of course, I don’t think the place is dying off completely any time soon, either. (And the “bunch of nerds” era which we’re at, relatively speaking, was arguably the least sucky Reddit period anyway - you can’t have Reddit’s user count without a large helping of extra toxicity coming with it)