Sad to see almost none of the devs, from
Apollor (ChristianSelig), RIF (u/talklittle), Infinity (u/Hostilenemy),
Boost (rmayayo), BaconReader, to Relay (u/DBrady), etc. are not considering Lemmy at all.

I know these were hobbies but by atleast developing it for some time just to make transition for your audience to Lemmy easier would have gone a long way!

@lemmy @LemmyDev Lemmy will remain a niche platform if not enough people switch to it

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    Unpopular opinion: I hope lemmy remains niche. Mainstream social media brings mainstream bullshit with it (trolls, nazis, low effort posters, bots, attempts at monetization leading to enshittification). People who are wanting a reddit clone, you’re in luck, reddit still exists

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      we aren’t “competing”. We aren’t shilling for an IPO. We aren’t trying to emulate commercial social media. We don’t need 20% annual growth - or even significantly more users. We just need civil discussion forums without vitriol being deliberately injected to maximize ad impressions. On the fediverse, we are not the product.

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        I’d love a but more activity over in c/formula1, but the base level of conversation there has been very good, and so it’s been very easy to moderate.

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      @animist Twitter is mainstream. Instagram is mainstream.

      Reddit was nowhere as mainstream as you might think. Outside of US.

      It had a nice balance between being niche but having enough content.

      Atleast that’s what I feel

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        On the spectrum of niche to mainstream, reddit is a lot closer to Twitter than it is to Lemmy