The smaller population overall isn't a bad thing, but it can really be felt in smaller or niche communities. Reddit's huge size is a plus in this regard, because chances you can find at least a semi-active community for just about any hobby or niche interest.
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They are used to the short-term goals of stonks.
The more people there are, the more popular it is with the working class. Instead of being a niche community, you can meet non-tech people that know about Lemmy.
Lemmy is good as is; slow growth is better, IMO.
For example the Formula 1 live threads during a race has like 10 comments on Lemmy, while on Reddit it's in the thousands. Just wish some communities were a bit more popular.
Serious question, would having 100 comments every few seconds kill smaller instances? How well will the federation scale?
Interesting as you are on LW. The current main issue with LW is that it is too centralized, so sometimes instances located geographically further struggle to keep up to date as LW doesn't update them fast enough
A post on the topic: https://lemmy.world/post/13967373?scrollToComments=true
Yeah, I just joined as a reddit refugee because lemmy.world looked appealing. Had no idea it would effectively become the "defacto" instance of lemmy. Would be nice if communities spread out more.
Because there are only a handful of communities that have enough traffic to sustain a meaningful conversation.
Even popular activities have low traffic, god forbid you want to participate in a community based around a niche activity.
I love Lemmy and I'm not going back to reddit... But sometimes it feels like a desolate wasteland here.
I need people like you to join https://fediverser.network to become a community ambassador. Please join it, find the subreddits that you would like to migrate and let's bring the people who are interesting.