Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:

  1. I wouldn’t worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)

  2. Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren’t yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

  3. Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit’s leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

  • z00s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    267·
    11 months ago

    The future of Lemmy has nothing to do with R whatsoever.

    • rab@lemmy.caEnglish
      211·
      11 months ago

      I disagree. R messing up is how we get more users

      • Vodik_VDK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        No, us generating content and community is how we get users. Reddit’s conduct only creates episodic influxes of users.

    • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      If that’s true, thrn Reddit’s explosion in popularity had nothing to do with Digg.

    • Historical_General@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      A good many of us are here because of R’s apps no longer working, including myself. It’s been a month and now I don’t even remember using R on my phone tbh. I did mostly use desktop, but I’ve also acclimatised very quickly.

      • Subverb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Which is one reason I am confused by the response to Sync. We left because of third party apps getting screwed over but a segment of Lemmy is saying “Yeah, but only foss apps should migrate to Lemmy because, ‘mah foss sensibilities’.”

        • Eddie@lemmy.lucitt.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          As a proud and loud member of the FOSS community, I will say this: The FOSS community is cringe as hell and people need to start going back to the root of the movement and remember that we are about CHOICE and FREEDOM.

          If you’re judging somebody for using the platform of their choice, FOSS or not, you are the problem.

            • HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              11 months ago

              I’m not here to complain about R. I want to see options like T & R die off in favor of these wonderful federated models. It gives us so much better control over cleaving off nazi’s and such, ridding corporate influence on posts, having a voice in the use of ads on us.

              • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                11 months ago

                R is living in your head rent free.

                Just let it go. None of those things are reliant on anything either of those sites does going forward.

                • HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  So you are ok leaving safe harbours for hate speech? I’d prefer such avenues were extinguished.

      • Noscharhar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I agree with you, but I think there’s a level where it is true.

        Like Lemmy should grow and develop based on what users are saying and not what Reddit is doing to a degree.

    • o_oli@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Lemmy is literally a reddit clone, of course it has lots to do with reddit what are you talking about