• Rentlar@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. Over at lemmy.ca there were just a handful of users posting regularly making up the entire feed until recently, now it looks like it’s starting to pick up as well. That is probably the story of all growing Fediverse communities lately.

    Lemmy is not a publicly traded company so growth is not the paramount priority of its existence, but it is certainly great to have a sizeable place where there are enough people around who care about each other.

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      1 year ago

      The community feel is tangible and the methodology is distributed in nature… win/win for socializing online, IMO.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy doesn’t need infinite growth and ever more value extraction from its users as a traditional company would, but a sizable userbase is definitely a good thing. There’s a certain critical mass that any social site needs.

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        1 year ago

        I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on critical mass. The way I see it, there’s many levels of critical mass but each come with various levels of trade-off.