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Is Lemmy dying? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by itadakimasu to c/asklemmy

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A week ago I was all excited... It looked like we had momentum. I even created a few local communities and the people came. Fast forward to today: my local communities are dead (no posts in many days) and 90% of the posts I see on the All: Hot have zero comments, 9% have 1 comment, and 1% have 2 or more comments. Despite the news of "2M active users and growing".

The only posts that have lots of comments are talking about Lemmy itself or the "Reddit implosion".

It's frustrating

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[–] richie510 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is not Reddit. It would be weird if 1/100th of the population could recreate Reddit in a week on a different platform.

For now a lot of former Reddit lurkers are going to have to elevate their game and live without the dopamine hits of getting a lot of upvotes and comments on their posts.