Don’t feed the trolls. They don’t need to be here anyway
By the looks of some new accounts, I wouldn’t want them here, either.
San Marino Monaco and Vatican 👀
Their loss, Lemmy is great. Everyone’s been pretty good so far, even when I’m being the annoying-preachy anarchist in a lib/nonpolitical instance. That and Sync for Lemmy have made it a pretty pleasant experience.
I like that it’s small enough that we all probably know who the thorn guy is.
I’m astonished that reddit it still going after all the decent users left en masse a few years ago.
Also commercial platforms try to maximize their user count so they can sell more ads.
Meanwhile, fediverse has little interest in increasing its user numbers, because we don’t generate money from it. In fact, more users would probably mean (slightly) higher infrastructure costs, though i’m not sure how much they actually are or whether one could consider them “negligible”.
Anyways, if we had more users, we’d also have more diverse content on Lemmy, and i would definitely appreciate that. Honestly, it’s a bit sad that 50% of the posts on the frontpage are about US politics, but i guess it’s just a topic that gets a lot of traction because it affects a lot of people and also because there’s not so much other content on the platform yet. I hope we’ll get more communities about somebody’s fringe favorite topics. :D
I knew reddit was dead when r/taylorswift was always trending.
hard not to read this as misogyny…
-sigh-
Create an instance that’s nothing but tons of bots bullshitting eachother and include them in the numbers. You know, they ways all the other companies lie about their user count.
you’d think the companies buying adds would catch onto that…eventually, but apparently not? guess in a bull market $ is infinite anyway, so who really cares just pump pump pump
yeah, really shows the absurdity of the metric of “user numbers” xD
Seriously, this platform is far from dead. Lemmy is not quite the same depth of niche content as Reddit was, but it’s certainly usable. If you can recognize Reddit’s practices are a problem then with a bit of effort there is another option.
quality > quantity
All the new users made Reddit objectively worse. I am not looking forward to when or if Lemmy ever blows up.
More real users than Reddit
That’s one thing I love about the Fediverse. Over on Reddit, if you belong to the 38k, you’re a rounding error. Here, you’re a significant part of the community.
38k is more than enough activity for a plateform to be lively. Especially when those user are spread across the world, allow for content at every hour.
Especially when each Lemmy user is valued at 342 times the worth of a Reddit user.
How dare you insult all lemmings with that low estimate haha
Are you saying that comments like came here to say this take my upvote who’s cutting onions saving this for later laughed at this harder than I should have tell me you’re x without telling me you’re x not all heroes wear capes sigh unzips pants thank you for the gold kind stranger are somehow less valuable than a genuine human thought?
Preposterous! Laughable!
But moving would literally solve the number problem. That’s how Reddit got big.
No but see stop proposing that, it would be bad for spez
Like complaining about the number of people on the rafts versus the Titanic. You can stay there if you want, but you are never going to “fix” a platform that you don’t control.
