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How do you think I came to be here if I wouldn't be able to do the bare minimum?
I'm very well aware of how it all works on the technical side, but the basic problem is that social networks only work when there's a large network of people connected to each other. If you're satisfied with the maybe hundred people that are active in this community that's great, but the whole discussion in this thread is about why Reddit can't be replaced by Lemmy.
I'm not trying to be judgemental about the process itself, I'm just saying that all of the points I made are dealbreakers for the question of Reddit replacement.
It’s obviously not Reddit numbers, but been a lot of posts about how much lemmy/etc have grown in the last week, largely due to the Reddit fallout.
Clearly it’s not going to replace Reddit overnight, but it’s made large strides very suddenly, and can def close that gap over time. Especially for people like me who enjoyed Reddit, but were just browsers, not really power users
People are signing up, but the number of posts and comments is still very low. In my subscription feed, there’s a new post every few hours and maybe 10 comments per hour. I've been on local message boards with more activity than that back in the 90s.
It sounds like you want a firehose. Most of us do not, from the comments I've seen here.
But, hey ... great thing about Lemmy is you get to find a server that suits your needs. If sheer volume is what you're after, other instances are geared toward that.