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Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users.

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

For perspective:

r/GothStyle has 159k subscribers, r/tarot has 306k, r/cycling has 348k, r/rpg and r/political humor have 1.5m each, r/ExplainLikeImFive has 22.3m, and r/AskReddit has 41.4m.

Make of that what you will. I'm just giving numbers.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Massive numbers of users is great for a business, but not necessarily great for discussion.

Lemmy doesn't feel like Reddit, but in a good way. Individual comments actually stand out, and it's not a sea of lowest common denominator trash and reposts.

I think people should stop conflating big numbers with success. If anything, we've seen the kind of nonsense big numbers lead to, with an IPO on the horizon and all that comes with that.