People need to realize that it’s okay for smaller forums to exist. Imagine if we measured fucking discord servers by numbers
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Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoI’m absolutely fine with 1.5 million. I enjoy lemmy much more than reddit. I feel like content and conversations here are better. None of the karma farming and corporate promotion disguised as natural content.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 9 months ago
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
If anything, smaller might be better in this case. We kind of have an idea of the type of demography we have here, with Reddit you could be arguing with a 9-year old in every other thread and you wouldn’t even know.
ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 months ago
1.5 million is almost entirely Mastodon users which have no clue how Lemmy’s commenting culture works so rarely contribute in a way that makes sense to both the Mastodon commenter and the Lemmy comenter/poster at the same time.
jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
For now.
sukhmel@programming.dev 9 months ago
Although you’re correct, I find fediverse lacking in the department of the more niche stuff, e.g. fandoms of specific games, communities by geo proximity, obscure hobbies.
But well, Reddit wasn’t like this from the start and I hope the diversity and smaller communities will be here instead of there with time.
triclops6@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Former r/fountainpens Reddit refugee here, and I agree 1.5m users doesn’t generate the kind of traffic for my hobby to figure in any sort of way. I miss the engagement
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Yep, I used to be on r/diyhotas and that was already a niche within the HOTAS niche within the simulator game niche 😂
Huschke@lemmy.world 9 months ago
While I was also part of some niche communities back in the Reddit days, thanks to Lemmy, I switched to Linux and have found interesting new websites, tools and apps. So I’d say overall it’s a net positive.