If everyone used lemmy, lemmy would be reddit
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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This is the thing right here. Enjoy Lemmy as it is. There's plenty of people here. The more people there are, the more it's going to suck. Be glad Lemmy isn't Reddit. I sure as fuck am. Lemmy is exactly the right size. Well, maybe it could double or triple and there would be more content and that would be a net positive, but anything more than that and it's going to start devolving into the same cesspool that Reddit has become.
I don't know if more people make lemmy automatically more shitty. After all this community started with a few hand fulls of reddits banned political extremists which tended to be the most annoying part at reddit (at least for me). New users at lemmy learn pretty quickly to ignore/ban pricks. I'd hope we get more content (and again advise anyone alread here to share their interests by posting in the dedicated communities).
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why does this matter.
Maybe because they’re spread out over a bunch of different instances?
I'd say we have too many reposts and not enough original content here. I mean you probably need to think about the value proposition. What does the Lemmyverse offer to someone from Mastodon? A lot of what we do is post the news and memes. And we got some Linux computer support. Now they already got all of that over on Mastodon. Oftentimes it won't even be a repost by some third party, but they get more original content because bloggers and comic artists post themselves over there. Along with some computer magazines and news outlets.
we also have science memes, showerthoughts and comic strips though!
I wonder if the comic strips community isn't just frequented by way too many high drama people to be appealing to a general audience. 😂 It is one of the very popular communities, though.
Just you wait. Growth will happen in shocks. Basically people probably haven’t heard about Lemmy yet.
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I use Lemmy every day!
Does anyone else find the font on this uncomfortable to read is that just me?
Your browser likely has a "reader view". In Firefox, by default, this can be toggled via clicking the little page icon in the URL bar. Remote styles won't be applied in that.
It is not just you
everytime an instance, or a community goes down or recieves too much drama(like how some users dint like the "political stance of a specific instance owners(not tankies)), they scatter to other platforms thats why. some went to piefed, and others. the last instance that went down, there was much more people lemmy, especially in some categories(not much but more than now)
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Lemmy ist for talking about topics, mastodon is for following brands and entering parasocial relationships.
Mastodon is a source for links to post to Lemmy. :P
That's also true. It has a wider audience, so there is more stuff to discuss. But I feel like it converges mostly to mainstream topics, and more niche things are harder to discuss.
No you're thinking of Threads