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I don't think there's really a solution to this.
Everyone is so fixated on getting more users but honestly I don't think that will make it a better experience.
Growth for growth’s sake is the destruction of many good things.
Keep Lemmy Obscure!
I kind of agree. It seems like there is some point at which it's ideal and then after it grows to a certain size things become unhinged.
It would be nice to see some additional interests and communities.
To me it would be worth it for Lemmy to get somewhat Eternal September'd if it meant Reddit being destroyed/replaced with something that isn't a company.
I respect your opinion, and can see some benefit to reddit's demise, but I think I'm too cynical and jaded to hold that belief.
It looks like bluesky will be twitter's replacement, and it's not clear that bluesky will be better.
If reddit implodes there's not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.
That said, at least lemmy is self hostable and federated. If the larger lemmy network did shit itself there would be smaller instances which are not federated with the majority of other servers so potentially they might be somewhat sheltered from bots and trolls.
Why not? Isn't that the reason for the influxes of users that have happened so far?
Hmm, I don't think the past is a good predictor of the future in this case.
Maybe everyone likely to leave reddit for lemmy already has?
With the influxes that have occurred in the past I think Lemmy has retained about a third of the MAUs contained in the spike. It's not nothing but I think it really underlines my point that Lemmy just isn't a viable alternative for a lot of reddit users. The network effect might be responsible for some of that, but not all.
Also, as time goes by there are more corporate backed alternatives, like threads.