3mo ago

Lemmy total number of users last month (very close to 1.5 M users)

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I don't care about "number go up".
Lemmy now has enough users to provide plenty of content, and really interesting new communities I've never seen on that other website are starting to pop up.
It also has its own memes and culture already.
You don't have 1000 comments under every meme post, but the comments that are there are usually worth reading.
It's not a reddit replacement - it's much better.
- One of the nice things about Lemmy is that you actually get replies under your posts/comments and it's not just repeating phrases to earn as much karma as possible. There's always a sweet spot of engagement in online communities and I feel like we're pretty close to where it begins. Other sites just make you feel like you're shouting into the void.
  
  Actually being a part of conversations is great
- tl;dr - We don't want the most users. We want the best users.
  
  Fair, but I do like seeing the federated model thrive and prove itself as a viable alternative to main stream social media. My utopian dream would be that profit driven internet would fall apart against what we have. I hate how much power is given to so few.
- There is still not enough people for niche topics.
  It is the eternal struggle as more users come niche communities will improve or even exist, but general communities will get worse.
  
  Maybe not every niche needs a dedicated community.
  
  They kinda do though. I can’t post about my gaming niche in a gaming community because it’s barely tangential, and still haven’t found 99% of the communities I had on Reddit.
  Lemmy is good for /all, and that’s about it tbh
  
  Which kind of gaming niche is it ? Are the subreddit mods open to creating a post presenting Lemmy as an alternative?
  
  Simracing. We don’t relate to typical gaming at all. It’s all high end hardware, all very specialized and typically doesn’t interest normal gamers.
  Subreddit mods are very against Lemmy or anything that moves them off the platform. The absolute butthurt rage for weeks after the protests proved that one right.
  Mostly I just don’t see this platform as an alternative for medium sized communities. It works for large ones where there’s enough people that after a move if 25% transfer then you still have a lively community. Or for small communities where you can get 70%+ to move. But those mid size, 100k users on average communities trying to get them to move just ends up with a ghost town here.
  
  Have you tried !simracing@lemmy.ml ? @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de posted there 2 times in the last 2 days
  
  I’m actually a mod over there, but as a general consumer of content, there’s not enough to make it a viable community. It’s seen a little more activity recently, but is overall a fairly small and dead community.
  
  That's why I try to post more. It might be a problem that it's hosted on lemmy.ml though, as some instances block them.
  
  You guys might consider moving it to a more consensual instance. You are on discuss.tchncs.de, that could be an option.
  Feel free to also post about it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , there might be other people interested on the topic

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