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Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

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[–] nbafantest 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit got massive because it had very vibrant communities and lots of them that inspired a loyalty in its uses.

I was brought to Reddit by a previous user, and I brought several of my friends to Reddit.

For lemmy to get there, you need thousands of communities.

Want to know stuff about Rav4? There's a sub for it.

Want to know about accounting? There's a sub for it?

Want to know about what's happening in Oklahoma city? There's a sub.

Lemmy isn't anywhere close to this point. In fact most subs are very dead.

[–] Dark_Blade 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit didn’t start out like that either. If Lemmy is to grow, it will take years of dedicated active use from us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Preach. So what, we multiply the amount of people those Sublemmies get by 100. It's still going to be dead. That's how dead it is.

We need to create Sublemmies for certain groups out of thin air. There's no chance we can convince people to move when the amount of engagement is orders of magnitude less.

Look at League of Legends. You know, the most played videogame in the world. One post per day in here. It's over.

[–] Serinus 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The entire LCS regular season I made post match threads at [email protected] . I always enjoy those discussions. Six weeks, 2-3 days a week, so maybe 15 posts. I probably got a dozen comments combined. I went into a few team discords asking for engagement.

On Reddit that's more like 78 posts. Each of those posts on Reddit will get hundreds of comments. 12 comments on Lemmy versus way more than 1600 comments on Reddit.

The league communities here aren't anywhere close to 0.1% of the league community there.

It's hard to build from absolutely nothing.