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Yeah I come here often just before going to reddit and the amount of time I spend here instead of there steadily increases because I get used more to this and also there is more content :)
not bad
It will grow steadily and will perhaps reach Mastodon levels of popularity. It will however take time so one needs to be patient.
Its gonna die just like mastodon did, haven’t you read the fastcompany and wired articles?
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they were being sarcastic (not about the articles but the “it’s gonna die” part). sidenote - if you look up “mastodon dying” most of the articles are about actual mastodons
til mastodon is also a species of animals, and not just the website 🤔
yeah mastodons are dope. too bad they went extinct 10,000+ years ago. it would have been really cool to see them and mammoths
WHAT, MASTODONS ARE AN EXTINCT BREED OF DOGS?
@dengismceo@lemmy.ml is right I was kidding, the mainstream tech world doesnt understand the fediverse at all and continously has said its going to die and its just funny at this point
Regarding everyone here talking about masto: most masto users don’t even know lemmy exists, but it feels like there is some demand. I think lemmy could get a boost by being a bit more vocal on masto.
Wait im a masto user and i joined lemmy because of that.
And more so if there was federation between Lemmy and the Fediverse, as that is how you get followed and found.
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.
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yeah thats a good point, I hope that happens
We should find a way to force Reddit content into the federation of content, but I’m not sure that’s possible.
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A gateway to Reddit may be useful but:
- it will bring undesired content/people from there
- the day it will start to be useful is the day Reddit will shut it down
You can take a look at Bridgy as they already have a Reddit gateway.
Reddit is starting to get super shady, (forcing you to use personalized-ads)
As long as Lemmy doesn’t start getting shady I’ll continue to use it
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I’m hoping we can make up in quality users, over quantity of users.
I would love to see lemmy.ml(and other instances) grow. One of the things I actually I personally would really love is having a site layout option that closely mimicks old,reddits.com layout. I suspect this may also help the site grow given the that many long time reddit users really dislike the new design it may give them a solid push to check out lemmy.
