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What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I don't think you need to have the largest following to have great value, even lemmy as it is right now feels great. I'll actually want to dive into comment sections compared to the endless scrolling on reddit.

As long as there's enough people using a platform for a variety of ideas and experience in topics, I think that's good enough for me.

[–] cjsolx 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Personally, I don't even want Lemmy/kbin to become Reddit 2.0.

Reddit from 10 years ago is the goal for me. Reddit has become far, far too bloated for its own good, and that line was crossed a long time ago IMO. Let's just enjoy what we have. Let all the normies stay on Reddit, the people I wanna vibe with are here already.

[–] dmmeyournudes 17 points 2 years ago

The problem is that nitch communities won't get populated unless a lot of people join. The league of legends sub is the largest video game sub on Reddit, and here it's barely active at all.

[–] Magiwarriorx 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I want it to be Reddit 2.0 in the sense that I can find active communities for specific or niche interests. Before July 1, the smallest subs that I participated in to have similar communities here were ones that had ~400k subscribers on Reddit.

The value of Reddit was never in the 1M+ communities, any content there was usually present elsewhere, and the discussions rapidly became dumpster fires. It was in the smaller dedicated subs for topics that might not have another human-centric discussion forum.

[–] Speculater 2 points 2 years ago

As a normie, I'd still like to vibe with you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree. A vast majority of the userbase don't mind the countless ads on Reddit or Twitter, on even FB. I think people are leaving FB because it's not cool anymore, not because the UE has gotten worse.

I'm just glad that there now are smaller, more tailored for my preferences alternatives like Lemmy

[–] gylotip 0 points 2 years ago

I think you meant UX as User eXperience.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Big true! I'm actually spending most of my time on Lemmy down in the comment section 😁

[–] reverie 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes I think about Hacker News, which isn’t technically sophisticated nor does it have a massive userbase (a little less than 1 million registered accounts).

It manages to have a steady stream of content and an active commenting base

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A big part of it is probably having full time paid moderators to manage their community well.