I agree with you, but at the same time if there aren’t enough users, small and niche sublemmys will never grow and have enough content to be interesting.
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Rooty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Aren’t you guys sick of forced infinite growth in every aspect of our collective existence? The Fediverse is not shareholder owned, we don’t have to be slaves to The Red Line That Must Go Up. Reddit went to shit when it was aggresively mainstreamed, I don’t want it to happen to lemmy as well.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 week ago
amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 week ago
Once upon a time Reddit used to be just a single subreddit. And it was fine. Lemmy already has enough users for separate subreddits to be actually kinda viable, even if they are not too active.
We’ll be fine.
net00@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Exactly, I feel the mindset of ‘line must go up or you die’ is really ingrained in people’s minds. Even if everyone leaves for something else lemmy will still be here, slowly getting better with updates and time.
Doesn’t matter how many people use it. As long as even 1 person wants to use lemmy it will be here…
BuckenBerry@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem is that in order to become a proper reddit replacement Lemmy needs enough users to create niche communities.
There are plenty of active communities related to technology and politics but there is no equivalent to r/batmanarkham or r/letgirlshavefun.
Plus there are plenty of communities that are all but abandoned.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Doing a 1/1 recreation of niche communities from reddit is a fools errand. Let communities develop on their own, or even better, simply federate existing communities.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Ppl gotta stop saying stuff like this and spend their energy posting and making those communtiies instead, comment in new and growing communities, post in them at least subscribe and upvote/downvote, do something other than just complain (more of a blanket statement, than at you)