• Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year 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.nl
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        1 year ago

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