Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no active here and tbh I see the trend of disappearing activity
That assumes everyone wants the fediverse to be as popular as reddit.
Personally, I don’t.
Reddit often felt like walking through waist-high shit to find the odd thread that was worth the effort.
Reddit became terrible once it became a political tool by corporations and international organizations to brainwash the masses.
And that was complete 8 years ago in the lead up to the 2016 US election, and it was well underway before that.
I don’t know if I did reddit wrong all the time (I’ve been there since 2013) or what the hell, but I do want Lemmy to be a replacement of Reddit to me.
I barely ever browsed r/all, I think I have done that more times now since the APIcalypse just to check out “what reddit is, and how it is going”
Reddit was my main source of resources for several topics such as Kodi, SBCgaming, Handhelds in general, Emulation of all kinds, Shield TV/Android TV and more generally gaming and tech news (I think Lemmy does fine in those both last fields), I just placed all my smaller subreddits/topics in the multisubreddits and used my mobile app to browse them all, later I knew about the best sorting in the frontpage and that was okay too, but never stopped using multireddits, that made my navigation more similar to forums, something that I used to frequent.
Usually my main source of finding cool stuff in the wild was if some redditor shared the subreddit in a kinda related thread, and if that caught my attention.
I legit didn’t think about Reddit as a glorified Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok resource as it appears to be in r/all.
I was living in my tiny bubble I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, one must have a requirement to achieve this is having a bigger number of active users.
I commented a lot there, and that hasn’t changed here, but definitely I’m upvoting more here than I did on reddit lol.