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What is missing from lemmy for it to become "successful"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, lemmy is a project I have been following since the beggining. With federation here, it seems like everything is aligned for it to become the reddit killer, pardon my expression.

What do you think is missing from lemmy for it to have a massive engaging community?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure I agree with success = massive engaging community. One metric of success is if users engage and stick around... @nutomic posted a relevant point in another thread

For corporate social media it is definitely a competition, but I dont think it makes sense to see the fediverse in the same way. We dont make more money from having more users, in fact having more users results in higher hosting cost and more moderation effort. Maybe there will be more donations, but thats far from certain. So I am totally happy even if Lemmy doesnt grow, as long as it provides an alternative space that some people find useful.

Everybody seems to be in a rush to see this thing grow huge, or to solve all of their desires (federate with mastodon!) That people see it this way though and that make about it means they have a passion for it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

To be exact I think this is the first time I see someone speaking about the "competitive feature" of general world and refusing it.

@[email protected] should be a teacher in high schools here...