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Yes, and i see a big opportunity for the next 5 years at least in my opinion. the freedom of speech must be guaranteed always, and this is what people need especially the traditional social media services like Facebook and twitter are going offensive on freedom of speech and filtering the content for political and commercial purposes.

I want it to become as useful as reddit was in finding concise and correct information for a huge variety of topics.

I'd like it how it is now but a bit more active, like reddit circa 2008 when I first joined. Sure there were memes and shitposts, which are fun and have their place, but even then the discussions on news stories and other serious topics were of unusually good quality. Tildes captures the later quite well, but is also pretty quiet.

of course

The great thing about Lemmy is that there's no admin, no one site, no single set of rules everyone has to obey. So Lemmy becoming mainstream doesnt necessarily mean everyone tolerating a new culture. Niche communities can continue to exist, instances can isolate themselves if they want and turn off registrations, "eternal September" isn't really possible on a network like this.

I don't really have a problem with the culture of reddit (at least not the reddits I frequent), so much as all the ads and astroturf. The question for me is whether Lemmy has strong enough modding tools to withstand that level of popularity.