What difference does it even make?
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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its 10x the useless circle jerk upvote farming of reddit with 1/n the user base
Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?
"Millions of users" is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small -- assuming you're interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active "Lemmy" is is entirely dependent on which topics you're interested in.
There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don't get too large.
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Active enough 🤷♂️
The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012
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Nah our lord and savior is Linus Torvalds and hes here to offer you Linux as his gift from the gods :3
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So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere
Same
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The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.
Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.
That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it's better than bigger forums because you don't have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.
I can usually, on bad days when I'm not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That's about the sweet spot, imo.