Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month

directive0@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Once a site gets too popular it gets normified and it just becomes nothing but reposts, in-jokes and low effort crap.

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reddit’s appeal was never in the popular subs, but in the long tail. Forget about the dozen subreddits with million+ subscribers, what made it interesting is the thousands of subs with a few hundred active users.

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    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You also have to realize that Reddit would squash popular communities that weren’t as advertiser friendly. Which led to the larger (bad) communities.

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• TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What hysteria?

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