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I hope not. I hope that lemmy doesn’t grow any heavier than it is growing right now. The content is good, it’s enough, most threads have good comments. I don’t want this to become another Reddit. Lemmy is really good as is.
People singlehandedly supporting communities about popular topics might disagree
God bless those people. I hope for more like minded individuals to help them out, but I still would personally not wish for lemmy to have thousands of votes and comments per post. Quality over quantity for me personally.
We're far away from thousands of votes and comments per post, don't worry.
!fedigrow@lemm.ee is full of people trying to build communities about popular topics, only to be shouting into the void
Lemm.ee is shutting down
We're well aware: https://piefed.social/post/834674
The issue is also partially that of those migrating to Linux from windows, in that they try to match their experience, ignoring all the other features they now have acquired. Communities will come organically, when there’s enough people to warrant them. Lots of tech communities as Lemmy users are usually tech affine.
It’s fine if there is not a subreddit clone for everything here yet. Maybe it will come, maybe it won’t.
The only way it'll ever come is if the userbase grows.
Problem is a lot of people don't remember early reddit it was the same way lots of tech folks then grew organic from there.
How is the latter supposed to happen without the former? Like it or not, many of us are here solely because Reddit went to shit with their extreme monetization. Lemmy is still a really small community and absolutely NEEDS larger adoption in order to remain a viable option
This 100%, honestly what lemmy/mbin needs is a clean up of dead communities. That were created and abandoned during the reddit api exodus. As well as the active communities that are just a bot posting content from reddit and nothing else.
I think the software should start hiding/marking them in some way
I don't expect they will all be deleted, and I don't even think it would be good to delete them because there could be a chance they start getting activity
True i like your idea of marking them. Just when people join a community i hate that they have wade through a mess of discarded clutter. To find the good places.
Might be a good point to create a github issue for on the lemmy repository
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3174
Yep. I've said this before, but I don't understand how a community that only provides links to external communities is supposed to help Lemmy grow, as opposed to taking people away 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah it's like with the AI Gen posts. If they are not willing to put in the effort to post something real. Why should I put in the effort to engage with their content.
This please. It’s totally fracturing and also misleading, especially in cases when the dead community has the highest # of subscribers!
Yeah cause everyone joined but then abandoned their accounts we need a secondary value for date of last post
Same. Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit used to be ages ago. Discussions are actually elaborate and thoughtful. The quality of content is so much better. I fear if Lemmy gets too big the quality of content will decline
it's not really growing though, if you look at MAU it's shrinking
we had a big bump at the end of March but we've been shrinking since then