• PatFusty
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      901 year ago

      My lemmitard in christ it hasnt happened yet. We are only a small .1% of crossovers and the whole fediverse is still less populated than r/malefashion advice.

      • MxM111
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        611 year ago

        It is not the number of users. It is quality of interaction. And I argue that it is already here (kbin user). Yes, it still misses such things like subreddit for a particular obscure game, but the overall experience is great.

        • @[email protected]
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          191 year ago

          Right — on Reddit, if you didn’t get to a post within say the first hour or so*, you were going to be banished to a vast wasteland of unseen comments with only one upvote.

          Even if you did, well, your comment best be damned clever, funny, or interesting to be interacted with much.

          This basically feels like a less lonely Reddit.

          Mastodon also has this vibe for me (vs twitter). Basically, the superstar economy effect is less strong.

          *or piggyback on an existing top-rated comment (trying to make one’s own relevant to it, or “hijacking” it)

          • PatFusty
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            91 year ago

            I 100% agree. I sometimes think of le funniest heehee hohos on reddit and i get 2 upvotes. Lemmy hits that dopamine a little harder with smaller number of users.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          I think a lot of people who sign up end up staying. I find my interaction on Reddit diminishes more and more and usage of lemmy keeps going up

        • DMmeYourBoobs
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          111 year ago

          You can talk about quality all you want, but if the room you wanna be in is empty you’re going to leave. You need a ton of users to populate the smaller communities that people will stick around for, not just the meme and porn threads.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            81 year ago

            It’s not like Reddit started with the current user base. It starts with big topics like memes, news, politics, ask, etc. That’s rolling. From there it starts to go niche and fill out.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          I agree, and can’t wait for it to trickle down to less popular interests. I find it to be wanting with some subjects.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        By any measure, Lemmy/Kbin has already started to take off. Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor was Reddit.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        171 year ago

        You don’t need everyone for it to take off. It’s started. You also can’t look at sub subscribers because there are a lot of dead accounts.

      • donuts
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        131 year ago

        That is the worst metric for whether something is “taking off” or not. Reddit wasn’t built in a day, and the fediverse won’t be either.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Reddit kind of got lucky with the development of modern smartphones.

          Old format forums that were designed for desktops were way too cluttered for mobile, especially with how small screens were back then. Reddit comes along with its streamlined take on forums as well as the ability to have a forum for any and every subject all on one site and it just took off.

          • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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            111 year ago

            Reddit got to where it is by relying on the labor of others. The original site code was open source, the mobile apps were made by other people, users moderated the subs for free, and users generated almost all of the content.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            Well… They didn’t have an app for the longest time. That’s why there were so many 3rd party.

          • AveragePigeon
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            Reddit began as a clunky forum and was popular long before smartphones, though. And like the other person said, they didn’t have an app for a long time. So this take of yours is a little flawed.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              It wasn’t popular long before smartphones. It was known about, sure. But the development of modern smartphones is what made Reddit one of the biggest sites in the world.

          • P03 Locke
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            41 year ago

            And now, it’s back the other way, with too many web sites (including this one) tailored too far for mobile sites and not enough focus on desktops.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Showed Lemmy to a few friends and my significant other. Hopefully it keeps gaining critical mass with all the negative attention Reddit’s been having.