If at all possible, lol
As popular as that swamp?/ Oh fuck no dude. Let’s fucking not
I don’t really care. If it gets more popular, that’s fine with me, but I’m fine with how it is now.
Please no
Anything that gets that big turns into a shithole. Enshitification will find a way. So just don’t.
Enshittification is a symptom of capitalism at work. Over time products are laser-focused to be as profitable as possible. Scale isn’t the issue, capitalism is.
You’re totally right. Lemmy has no way of earning money outside of donations and the only way to earn money from donations is to make an actually good platform, no one will donate if it becomes shit.
The catholic church has entered the chat.
Religion is a superstructural element molded by the mode of production and utilized to reinforce it.
Yeah, but it was around before capitalism.
Capitalism is just one mode of production, religion has changed and shifted to suit each new mode of production over time.
Just look at every single big subreddit lmao. The only way to use that site is to leave every single default and join smaller communities.
I agree somewhat in the context of centralization. But the spread of the fediverse is a good thing. If Lemmy grows, alongside decentralization, then it should stay true to its roots.
Careful what you wish for.
Why would you want that? I think of lemmy as an old message board. I think it’s better that way.
Because of a severe lack of content. On Reddit you can find a community for basically anything. On Lemmy there are only a few alive ones. E.g. there are very few alive country communities.
Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.I couldn’t agree more.
I appreciate you putting it into words instead of just upvoting
Not everything needs to be put in words though. Simply saying “I agree” with nothing more to the comment is just wasting everyone’s time, except for the single person they replied to getting an ego boost. The thing about comments is they’re public, they’re for more than just the recipient. You’re trying to make comments like DMs, where people can privately circlejerk until they’re both spent.
I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it’s really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write “I like the way you formulated this.” or “Makes sense, I hadn’t thought of it like this before”. That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.
Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.
And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.
upvoted.
downvoted.
Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.
Because there are not enough niche communities on Lemmy. For example as a queen fan, lemmy has no queen community but the r/queen community is thriving with many posts going up every day.
Also lemmy is currently very underfunded and the only way to really help that is by having more people.
At one point reddit also had no queen community. Someone created it and built it into what it is now. You can do the same here, that’s kinda the point.
You might be right, but this would only work to an extent. You also need enough people who are interested in in that niche community, you can’t just put a ton of effort into creating a community and sharing it around and expect it to become popular.
There is a difference between “more people” and “as many people as reddit”
This is true.
Reddit is a for profit website owned by rightwing idiots pretending to be a community space rather than a volunteer effort to help rich reddit chuds train their AI crap… so the problem isn’t inherently about the popularity here.
Regardless though, I want more people here based on the principle that when good things happen to me it is better if they happen to others and I should endeavor to destroy any barrier to seeing a fluid relationship between my wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around me.
I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.
It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.
Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.
I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.
I think this is a bad idea because it could turn into a second reddit.
Pornography & Video games (let’s say Walkthroughs)
porn walkthrough? That’s an untapped market
What do you think JOI is?
I meant those as seperate😂
There’s admittedly some things I miss from Reddit like bigger niche communities, but I would never want this to get as popular as reddit, because then you’ll end up just getting the same problems as reddit down the road and we’ll all have to migrate again. And who wants that?
If we could somehow keep the bigger Communities the same size they are now, while growing niche Communities, that would be ideal. It’s logically impossible though.
I don’t think the community is a reason to migrate away. If you end up disliking the community in lemmy then you are probably on the wrong instance, just chose the instance with the community you prefer.
For me I’m not using lemmy because I dislike the reddit community, Although that might be because I haven’t spent enough time on reddit to hate it. But I am using lemmy because it has better privacy, it is not enshitified and it is not likely to ever become enshitified and it follows the ideals of decentralization and free software.
We should probably gate keep discussion to try keep the standards high in threads where it makes sense. But from what ive seen its already pretty good and conversation feels very human. If we got a influx from reddit id want them to adapt to lemmy culture and not come here and be redditors.
Lemmy must become the free pornography capital of the internet
i dont think the lemmy servers would be able to hold for that long
