Start telling people now, over on reddit. BEFORE they start cracking down. That way, everyone will know, and the growth will happen even more rapidly.
Start telling people now, over on reddit. BEFORE they start cracking down. That way, everyone will know, and the growth will happen even more rapidly.
So fyi, “Grow or Die” does mean “grow forever or die”. That’s what’s the phrase was coined to mean and what it implies in every other context but yours. Worth keeping in mind.
Regarding everything else, you are very possessive about a platform that’s not your’s either, aren’t you? I talk about how better participation from everyone would improve and grow the platform (quite the opposite of the “I like my little club EXACTLY the size it is now” you’re trying to frame it as) and your response is “you don’t run this shit”? It’s surprising you want more people here when you can’t seem to stand just one person disagreeing with you.
And comparing this all to Reddit, a site that’s been around over 4x longer than Lemmy has existed, is just asinine. No, Lemmy isn’t going to be at the same level as that. It probably won’t be next year either. That doesn’t mean it’s dying.
I recommend patience and, again, focusing on bettering what we have now rather than obsessing over increase for the sake of increase, though considering your responses so far, it seems unlikely you’ll take to that suggestion much. Good luck with that I guess.
Are you somehow unaware that this platform is SPECIFICALLY A REPLACEMENT FOR REDDIT?
You’re acting as if the comparison is somehow unwarranted. The Fediverse/Lemmy is an alternative to and/or a direct replacement for Reddit. Nothing more, nothing less. It has the same feature set, the same basic format, the same intended use cases. It’s an open/free/non-corporate version of Reddit, to belabor the point. Comparing it to Reddit is only sensible.
Or are you like one of those GIMP users who really bristles at the notion that the GIMP is intended to replace Photoshop?
Also, please address my point that we don’t have any control over what Reddit does. This isn’t about my patience. Reddit IS about to make a lot of corporate-ass decisions that will cause them to shed users BY THE TENS OF MILLIONS, and a whole shitload of them will land here.
Again: neither of us can control that. Neither our patience nor our eagerness will have any effect on it. It’s just going to happen. And I made a meme about how perverts can and/or should be harnessed to grow the community.