• josheron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t care about the piracy community but people are complaining about they having to create multiple accounts and saying Lemmy will never reach critical mass like this…

    But why would we want to reach critical mass? I don’t want to sound like a gatekeeper but growing just for the sake of growing is never been good on anything.

    Specially as Lemmy is still an alpha software. And people are still figuring out how is the better way to moderate ourselves instead of waiting to Big Corpo to do so.

    This is part of being an early adopter. You give feedback, sometimes things don’t go your way, other they hear you out.

    I’m loving the experience so far. The Fediverse still is not mature enough (we block fast) but we are still figuring things out.

    • small44@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Because most communities are desert lands. Niche communities can’t grow enough without lemmy going mainstream

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      1 year ago

      it’s unlikely for anything to be in a perfect balance, so if something doesn’t noticably grow, it’s likely that it’s shrinking (which of course is what kills online communites unless they are already large)