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Why are so many people so fixated on Lemmy's growth? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AstralPath@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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...relative to Reddit's size?

I see so many posts and comments voicing disappointment with Lemmy's lack of massive expansion.

I too want to see Lemmy gain more users, but I do not want it to grow to Reddit's size. If Reddit is the yardstick, I'd say that a population that large attracts a lot of negative behaviours; degeneration of discourse, amplification of echo chambers and hive mind behaviour, etc...

I started on Reddit in 2010 and found that by 2016 things were really bad in comparison. A fun and engaging site was experiencing an obvious devolution that persists to this day, accelerated by Spez's enshittification of the platform. Obviously the fediverse insulates us from that occurring here but I think you get what I mean.

Do you you think Lemmy is too small? I don't. I've been here since the great migration last year and have had a really good time. I see a lot of familiar names in the comments on a daily basis. It actually feels like a community here. I guess I just don't understand the fixation on the size of Lemmy's user base. Curious to hear your thoughts.

[EDIT] Thanks for all the responses, everyone! Lots of perspectives I hadn't yet considered.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Does anyone remember the inside jokes in the early days of reddit?

When does the narwhal bacon? Orangered Chuck Testa!! Ridiculously photogenic guy And of course the long list of meme-level posts like broken arms, cumbox, celebrity AMAs

This type of community humor made a lot of people feel like they'd found their tribe on reddit in those early days.

I haven't seen much like this develop on Lemmy yet, possibly because there's so many disparate communities merging. I'm not really sure. Or maybe all those 20-something redditors are now pushing 40.

I think it will take a while for a lemmy culture to develop and the community won't attract outsiders much until it does.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

I need to not poop for three days.

[–] graphene@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

cough cough I... I was there cough during the beans

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is just a continuation of the Reddit crap of recent years, except for less corpo bullshit, but with more lefty infighting.

[–] firadin@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Yeah those memes were cringy as fuck thank god no one's doing anything that dumb