I think it’s fine. Lemmy was actually nicer with less users. Now it grew a bit and all the trolls also came along. If it becomes huge, it will probably lose most of its charm.
Bigger is actually not better sometimes I think.
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Gork@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hope we see some more migration. Lemmy is miniscule in comparison, with 60,000 active users by last count.
Heck, even /r/mildyinteresting has 220,000 users and that isn’t even the main subreddit, it’s a misspelled version of the main subreddit /r/mildlyinteresting.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
ieightpi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also Reddit has been around for over a decade and lemmy has existed for about 4 years. It’s hard to compare the two in that regard.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
/r/videos supposedly has 10 million subscribers, but when I was still on reddit you'd regularly see content with 100 upvotes reach the top of the subreddit.
Subscriber numbers are fantastical.
skarlow181@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And the real strength of Reddit isn’t the huge subreddits anyway, they are mostly just trash. It’s all the niche communities, most of them haven’t moved away, or if they have, they moved to Discord.