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What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?

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[-] Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja 41 points 1 year ago

I sure as hell hope not.

To me, that's like looking around a great little cafe with terrific food and saying, "Do you think this could ever become McDonalds?"

Why would I want that?

[-] dub@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yea that's a good point. I want it to be popular enough to have a good time and business to thrive but I don't need it to have all the users from previous places. A smaller, more involved community is good for me

[-] Sheltac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes please. First thing I had to do on new Reddit accounts was always unsubscribe from the giant, bot-infested communities.

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What is crazy is that I feel like Lemmy is already approaching that fun size, you know? There's a steady flow of content and comments. But it's not full of shit yet.

Personally I would love to see it grow by enough that some of my favorite types of communities (specially state-specific and sports team specific) can thrive. But I am really not interested in Lemmy becoming big enough to rival centralized alternative platforms like reddit. Being that large brings far too much baggage along for the ride.

[-] dub@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I definitely feel that it is almost there. Most enthusiat forums are filled with millions of users, but a couple thousand max. Dedicated users and some casual users would be best for this place to get to where it needs to be

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Because of quarterly profits. We have to hit those KPIs!

But, yeah. Honestly, I'm fucking done with mass appeal websites. You know what else is mass appeal? Reality television and pop music. Let the idiots have TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, that should be enough for them.

[-] CrackaJack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, I learned not to advertise to anyone about a great thing. Idiots would flood and troll leading to decline. But you'd still want some diversity of opinions and not create an echo chamber.

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