People make it look like it's over for Lemmy, but this is only the beginning. Don't worry, Reddit will fuck things up again. The Fediverse will win in the long run. Maybe Lemmy doesn't have the momentum yet that we want it to have. At the same it's grown so much. I mean, not that long ago there were almost only communists on this thing...
I'm actually, honestly enjoying this more. Yes, pretty much every niche community I joined has died now, and that's unfortunate, but it's quite certainly alive anyway.
Reminds me a bit of earlier Digg, and the culture here varies a lot but I see a wide range of political opinion and cultural frames of reference compared to what Reddit was, which was a near monoculture.
I prefer this not being guided by a single company.
I dunno, do we actually care about people who would leave here and go back to Reddit?
IMO the constant posts about users dropping aren't from people who want Lemmy to succeed. Anecdotally I haven't noticed a major change, still seems as active if not more than when I joined. Reddit has gotten worse and worse in that time period. I have faith.
I still love Lemmy. It's nice to be able to post or comment without getting an automated response telling you you're doing 15 things wrongs for trying to participate like happens on schmeddit.
well said. it's not about quantity, it's about quality. and spez enshittified Reddit because of greed, we shouldn't be greedy ourselves, or Lemmy will get enshittified too. i would like to slowly make it cozy and happy here, we shouldn't be competing against Reddit, because Lemmy is something different.
any nice user is welcome, please don't make them feel guilty for being on Reddit too. we will slowly make a nice transition so people have the option to being their stuff here if they want, which is what we need. no rupturism, please. i think we should be welcoming, not warmongering. this was made for users, not against spez. it's totally different.
spez can go and screw himself, i prefer to appreciate those who do good than to mourn about those who do wrong. don't waste energies on destructivity, spend them on constructivity.
don't compare to Reddit, compare to Lemmy on July, to Lemmy now, to what Lemmy could be if we work together. don't get anxious about growing. focus on 'growing nice' instead of 'growing more'.
we will make it. for sure. and it will be great.
have a nice day.
edit: i realize the 'not against spez' could have been worded better. what i try to say is that i prefer to focus my energies on nice people than bad people. i suffered already a lot bc of bad people and i prefer to spend my life supporting nice folks. sorry for the confusion.
Agreed. I'll be staying with Lemmy. I don't care about daily active user numbers, I care about how Spez is treating Reddit and having good post content. Redditors themselves (as a whole) are not a problem, and I have a plethora of good posts to go through when I get on every few days.
Have a great day yourself
Honestly yeah this is actually great. Most of the reasons I started to hate Reddit was that it went "mainstream". Censorship, political feuds.
I would hear Reddit mentioned in the news. I don't need that for my "community".
Like a return to Bulletin Boards. Hell yeah. Free and open internet babyy
Blocked reddit on my router, to prevent accidental clickage - no intention of going back there at all
Spez: 
As soon as reddit links fall out of Google, I won't even have to think about seeing it anymore. I also have it DNSBlocked because that's the only way I am going to stay off of it. X too.
Something I used to do on Reddit was find a new community, and binge the top posts from the last year. I've started being able to do that on Lemmy, which is a huge win in my books
anyone who wants to leave can go. Hell, I'm responsible for two of the lost users because when i first came over here I misunderstood how this works and made a new account on each instance. what's up @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org and @reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz?
I browse lemmy a lot on mobile. When I first looked into lemmy mobile clients, they were read only.
This post inspired me to get Sync 4 Lemmy, now I'll be commenting much more (careful what you wish for haha as I'm sure I will have opinions some don't agree with, but hopefully can always debate rationally)
same tbh
That's the spirit