Would you like it to grow so all of your other, non-technical interests could have active communities? Do you want more people for moral and philosophical reasons? Or are you enjoying being in a niche? Are you happy to have a platform full of techie individuals, even in communities not explicitly tied to anything techie (much like this one)?
My answer to all of these is “yes,” so I’m not quite sure what I want. What are your thoughts?
Yes and no. Would be nice to have more active niche communities, but I don’t want this place to become full-on Reddit.
Yes. No to the Reddit’s size though.
It really depends on who or what gains.
I’m happy with current population. Bigger is not going to be better. You can look at any big platform to see where it’s heading when they become big.
It would be much more users who are not very used to how to behave on more intelligent social networks.
I rather not see this place become Twitter.
Lemmy should be the replacement for reddit IMHO.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m enjoying the recent influx since the recent reddit migrations, while still staying niche. And I’m appreciating being amongst like minded, generally leftist communities here.
But if it requires opening up the floodgates to idiots, fascists, and trolls in order to kill reddit, so be it. As long as there are no algorithms, advertisers, and spez’s, I’m all for more lemmings.
Want as much niche stuff as Reddit, but with a general culture that’s just less dominated by straight men
Yeah. This is such a better experience than past community tools I have used.
In particular, I hope we can attract the Do-It-Yourself repair community, before the current platforms lock all of that content away.
I want Lemmy to grow. I want federated ActivityPub-based communities to eventually be the general public’s default way of asking and answering questions, sharing information however obscure, i.e. replace not just reddit, but most web forums, Facebook groups, etc. too. I have liked things based on open standards for all my life, and will never stop wanting them to be widely adopted.
Absolutely. I think the setup of the Fediverse in general as well as the outlook on it by the majority of admins would allow Lemmy to keep its charm even when it grows to a much bigger size.
I’d also like to see specialist instances. There could absolutely be a separate instance that has major sports, for example. Or even just the NFL. Kind of like the benefits of old forums, but with the benefits of federation and Reddit.
More geographic based instances would also be great.
Otherwise I’m not into more instances just for defederation’s sake. Email works just fine having most users in a few major hosts. Lemmy can be similar. It’s the option to leave that is important.
There are instances like https://soccer.forum
https://nba.space
https://nfl.communityThe communities aren’t super-active because the idea is that they’re remote-only, but that means they don’t get the benefit that comes from local users browsing their local feed.
separate instance that has major sports
The geographical instances already exist for the most part. .world is an American instance in all but name, there’s lemmy.ca for Canada and some European ones.
A sports instance would be pretty funny if im being honest. Can you imagine the drama between the different communities for a specific team?
Not really. It’s pretty good. Growth will just bring more bot wars. But I guess bot-immigration is just a permanent trait of the internet now.
Eh… I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, it sure would be nice if there were more gamers here and every individual game had its own community, that was actually active, like Reddit does.
On the other, I’ve seen literally every space I’ve ever used get ruined by having too many people watering down the fun and altering the vibe. Eternal September fucking sucks.
I can say that the best thing to do a gaming community is to push it yourself. !satisfactory@lemmy.world was pretty empty when I got there, I just took screenshots for 8 months and talked it up whenever I could. Now it’s actually thriving, and people knew to go there for the 1.0 release.
Hell I even have a decent sized Taylor Swift community on a very nerdy platform. Pick something that either doesn’t exist or that doesn’t have much traction and post to it constantly. It feels weird getting no, or few upvotes, but it will pick up. As it starts showing on all people will start subscribing
Yes, I do want Lemmy to grow … but to grow organically and naturally over a very long period of time instead of artificially in a short period of time just to make some idiot or a small group of idiots a bunch of money.
Growing over a long period of time will also allow developers, maintainers and managers to grow with increased size over time. Instead of panicking over sudden exponential growth, they can slowly build stronger more robust systems over time. Also, if something is grown over a long period of time … it will also take a long period of time for it be destroyed, dissolved or disregarded. If you grow something way too fast, chances are the risks increase for it to disappear just as quickly.
Yes, but slowly. Every time I go to the Reddit front page and just see astroturfing and vapid pop culture stuff, then go to the comments and see 75% repetitive bot comments, I realize how much that place sucks now. I want more niche discussion spaces, but I don’t want reddit again anytime soon.
Yes, absolutely.
The nice thing about Reddit was that if I saw a new TV show, read a new novel, or picked up a new hobby, there would be an existing community of people already talking about it. Lemmy is great, but it doesn’t have the critical mass of people needed for that to be possible.
Yeah. I came here after the Reddit API debacle. I hoped Lemmy would be a good substitute, but we don’t have enough users or enough posters.
