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Apollo has ceased working (lemmy.ml)
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Looks like Apollo is now dead boys and girls. Feels like having a loved one die

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[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find that a lot of Lemmy people are positing a vision that won’t exist, which is that there’s going to be a great migration to Lemmy. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

But the key is that you don’t need the hundreds of millions that Reddit has. You can argue that you don’t even want it.

What I want is a return to the 2000-era bulletin board-type numbers where each community would have on the order of a few hundred or thousand active participants.

[–] someguy3 1 points 2 years ago

How many people until you consider it a migration? It won't be 100%, but as mods wonder why they're doing unpaid work just so Huffman can get rich they will stay leave Reddit and come to Lemmy/somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The thing is, I suspect the Fediverse could do both.

There might one day be giant single instances, that are in themselves, a reddit, but also tiny ones with tiny communities just doing their own thing.

I don't think Lemmy or the fediverse will go down anytime soon, but I'm not imagining some sudden spike of explosive growth beyond what we've already seen. I don't think anyone does.

We're just optimistic about the future of this incarnation of social media!