• uthredii
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    4 years ago

    I am happy with the size of lemmy now. If lemmy gets too big we will have corporate shils, sock puppets and bots trying to manipulate the conversation.

    Having said that, I think there is a good chance Lemmy will take a decent chunk of reddit users in the near future.

    My reasoning:

    • I think lemmy’s interface is intuitive for new users (paritularly new users from reddit).
    • Open Source/Federation/Non coroporate patforms are something many reddit users are interested in and value.
    • Reddit is pushing some users away through increased advertising, subreddit bans, trying to get people to use the new app/interface.
    • There have been mass-migrations from reddit to other sites before (voat). If there is another mass-migration it will likely to be to a lemmy instance as there will allready be some content available and I as far as I know it is easy to set up an instance.
    • r/privacy has a raddle.me community as a backup forum in case it gets banned. If subbreddits start having lemmy as a backup that could draw new users.