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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I've rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.

On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you'll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.

On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.

I don't know, what do you think?

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[-] LegendofZelda64@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's giving to much credit to Facebook tho. Not everyone is just going to jump ship and join the Facebook fediverse.

[-] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They will if they have a better UX, computational resources, brand recognition, and can sign you up with your current Instagram account. Which seems to be the case.

Will everyone join? No. I'd rather go back to Reddit than to sign up for it.

Will the vast majority of people join? Yes.

The new Threads app had something like 10M users in 7h. The whole of Lemmy is 2M users.

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