I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

We’ll see what happens I guess.