It's better this way. Reddit went to shit when it started getting media attention.
Lemmy is cozy. I think it could be better if it were larger but not like, huge. But its also okay now. Not everything needs the grow at all costs mentality
I think Lemmy should be huge. Think about how many subreddits exist for every niche. It would be great if those places could exist free of corporate influence.
The only thing I'm missing is a more diverse range of active communities
That requires more people
Pixelfed is growing at a rate of 20,000 active users per day. (source).
Mastodon has recently been growing at 5,000 to 10,000 active users per day. (source)
Those are active users, i.e. actually posting or liking/favoriting. Since yesterday pixelfed.social had to turn off its global feed. Mastodon.social still has its global feed but it doesn't seem to be getting pixelfed posts and isn't updating automatically. Maybe it's good that the press is ignoring them. If they grew any faster they'd become unusable.
Pixelfed
ok
if or once lemmy is ever flooded, the lack of moderation will destroy it from within.
Swap Mastodon for Xitter and it feels spot on.
Not sure you'd show how well Pixelfed is doing at the moment but that might be for another meme.
Xitter goes in the trashcan 👌
I like to think Threads went straight in the trash, Xitter at least made it into the pool but is now drowning.
I didn't choose mbin/lemmy because it was popular, so I'm fine with this.
Yeah this was kind of a similar story with Reddit at one point too. When I first looked into Reddit, it was because I had seen it included with the 'share' buttons on various websites and wanted to see what it was. I don't think it was as small as Lemmy when I joined but it was definitely never on the same plateau as Facebook and Twitter.
Mbin is the goat but it would not work on its own so thank god I can roam on Lemmy servers.
