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Lemmy is blowing up (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by meisme@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[–] subigo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly it'll probably be closer to 99.999% of users will stick around Reddit. The largest Lemmy instance is smaller than the smallest subreddit I follow and I suspect that's probably the case for most people.

Here's what will happen... Reddit blackout starts, people come to Lemmy, 8 out of 10 are confused by the way things work and bail instantly. 2 out of 10 might stick around, try to sign up, but everyone hammers the top 3-4 instances and they have a bad first impression. A few days later everyone is back at Reddit and Lemmy is right back where it was a month ago.

I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt I will be.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I personally don't understand wanting to go back... reddit is so unpleasant as it is. All that made it tolerable was 3rd party. I'd rather go back to imgur than reddit.