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Do you think lemmy would be as popular as reddit? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by Tuxinator@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no active here and tbh I see the trend of disappearing activity

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[–] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think Lemmy will reach or overtake Reddit. That's a good thing in my opinion, because massive platforms come with massive moderation problems that aren't so easy to tackle for decentralised networks. We've seen that when someone posted kiddie porn and several servers went down to scrub the filth from their systems.

If anything, Lemmy already has a pretty high amount of troll communities, thankfully mostly contained within their own servers, which enables separation through defederation (speaking of defederation, I'd love to have an option to block servers on the user level).

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 12 points 9 months ago

Instance blocking is coming in 0.19 apparently.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've had luck blocking communities and instances on lemmy connect. Little more labor intensive, but can get rid of all that goddamm furry porn lol

[–] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Gonna check out Connect, thank you :)