On the future of Lemmy vs reddit

fresh@sh.itjust.works to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 658 points –

Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:

  1. I wouldn't worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)

  2. Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn't fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren't yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

  3. Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit's leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

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I agree with you. Currently on Infinity for lemmy and I love it! Def switching to a 3rd party app changes the experience completely. I'm normally a Boost user, but Infinity is amazing and the owner is smashing bugs pretty quickly. And FOSS! (That was the main reason I tossed Sync out the window)

I was so happy to hear someone was making a fork of Infinity for Lemmy!

Same i use infinity for lemmy and infinity for reddit (with my own api key) its working great