• Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      872·
      11 months ago

      I’m absolutely fine with 1.5 million. I enjoy lemmy much more than reddit. I feel like content and conversations here are better. None of the karma farming and corporate promotion disguised as natural content.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        591·
        11 months ago

        Although you’re correct, I find fediverse lacking in the department of the more niche stuff, e.g. fandoms of specific games, communities by geo proximity, obscure hobbies.

        But well, Reddit wasn’t like this from the start and I hope the diversity and smaller communities will be here instead of there with time.

        • triclops6@lemmy.caEnglish
          192·
          11 months ago

          Former r/fountainpens Reddit refugee here, and I agree 1.5m users doesn’t generate the kind of traffic for my hobby to figure in any sort of way. I miss the engagement

        • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Yep, I used to be on r/diyhotas and that was already a niche within the HOTAS niche within the simulator game niche 😂

        • Huschke@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          While I was also part of some niche communities back in the Reddit days, thanks to Lemmy, I switched to Linux and have found interesting new websites, tools and apps. So I’d say overall it’s a net positive.

        • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
          151·
          11 months ago

          If anything, smaller might be better in this case. We kind of have an idea of the type of demography we have here, with Reddit you could be arguing with a 9-year old in every other thread and you wouldn’t even know.

      • ericjmorey@programming.devEnglish
        172·
        11 months ago

        1.5 million is almost entirely Mastodon users which have no clue how Lemmy’s commenting culture works so rarely contribute in a way that makes sense to both the Mastodon commenter and the Lemmy comenter/poster at the same time.

        Lemmy has ~20k ish actively commenting accounts.