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What are your predictions regarding lemmy's growth? (lemmy.ml)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I am happy with the size of lemmy now. If lemmy gets too big we will have corporate shils, sock puppets and bots trying to manipulate the conversation.

Having said that, I think there is a good chance Lemmy will take a decent chunk of reddit users in the near future.

My reasoning:

I think lemmy's interface is intuitive for new users (paritularly new users from reddit).
Open Source/Federation/Non coroporate patforms are something many reddit users are interested in and value.
Reddit is pushing some users away through increased advertising, subreddit bans, trying to get people to use the new app/interface.
There have been mass-migrations from reddit to other sites before (voat). If there is another mass-migration it will likely to be to a lemmy instance as there will allready be some content available and I as far as I know it is easy to set up an instance.
r/privacy has a raddle.me community as a backup forum in case it gets banned. If subbreddits start having lemmy as a backup that could draw new users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Things shift the larger the pool of users get regardless. One plus is that in its current state I am actually posting whereas on reddit I never did even when digg.com was the behemoth and reddit was the small guy. As things grow more general/meme content comes into play i'd probably stop but that is fine.

One possible outcome I find exciting is that due to its federated nature lemmy.ml could be come a sort of incubator for smaller communities e.g. everybody piles onto the main server by default, but then the admins can spin off groups of likeminded communities into their own instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

yeah thats a good point, I hope that happens