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Is the number of users in all of Lemmy tiny compared to the number of users in Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

it can easily shrink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don't know what that would be right now.

Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything, or (like has happened with other, older monopolies) be broken up during a dynastic feud. I see some strong parallels to how Linux has outgrown proprietary alternatives over the decades, and arguably it's even harder for an OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That hasn't been the trend though.