First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    There is no way that the Lemmy network can handle millions of users. The big instances are struggling with tens of thousands. I believe many will leave and reddit will become worse because of it, but it’s not going to die, it’s going to turn into facebook.

    • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      No without mods reddit is basically dead. Thats their own system and fault…

      And i think the instances need more capacity to support the traffic, but its not impossible. i also hope that at least some of the people coming here start new instances.

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
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        1 year ago

        Reddit has slowly replaced mods in large subs with employees. And you vastly overestimate the willingness of the average user to put up with quirks of new platforms like Lemmy.

        For Lemmy to support the 430 million monthly active users that reddit has - this is currently, in my opinion, impossible. The largest lemmy server has tens of thousands of users, and is running on the most powerful server that VPS provider OVH offers. The lead developer knows that there are big performance improvements needed in the code and has been working on it for some time, but it will be years before the lemmy network can handle even a few million active users, in my opinion.

        • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          They can replace who they want in general, but they never cover the thousands of niche and middle sized subs and thats a money issue, they can’t suddenly materialize thousand employees to moderate some subs. And the medium and small subs actually draw most non bot traffic. Also its estimated that reddit massively inflates user numbers, especially on their “default subs”

          Current lemmy supporting hundred millions is absolutely utopian, but its in active development, there would be a way, but i would be very surprised when more than 5% of reddit users would suddenly end up here, lemmy needs to grow healthy and not from one day to the next by a Exponent, that’s a fact. But i don’t think it would take years, more users draw more attention, wich leads to more devs helping to improve the quality.

          (oh and i kinda don’t care about the “average users” i care about the top 5% of reddit that contribute 50% of the content and 99% of the mod work)