Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?

• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh, if you go back far enough, there was a time when reddit had fewer users than the fediverse has now.

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  • TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was on reddit 10 years ago. Different vibes than old reddit for sure. Still way less users on Lemmy.

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fewer - “users” is countable.

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  • Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You really need to be ‘that’ guy

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was doing this on Reddit 10 years ago, so…

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      • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You keep at it, buddy

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Context.

    Here it’s being used a singular group of things.

    Like, a herd of cows is a singular thing made up of lots of individual things.

    If you lost 50% of the herd, you wouldn’t say you had fewer herd

    You’d say you have less of a herd.

    But language is what we make it, it’s why the rules are blurry

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your argument is supporting the comment you’re replying to. “Users” is equivalent to “cows” in your example, not “herd”. If you lost 50% of the herd, you’d still have a herd of cows, but you’d have fewer cows, just like there are a lot fewer users in this instance.

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      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “users” is a singular group in this context.

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      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Both may be correct depending on the speaker. English has exceptions to everything… I learned that from a European.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here it’s being used a singular group of things

      It’s not singular. users is plural. “A group of users” is singular, but users is referring to multiple individuals. The correct verb to use with users is are.

      For example, you would be incorrect to say “There is users online”, but you could say “There is a group of users online”.

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• HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mm yes, reddit started with out with tens of thousands of users over night.

  I think the situation here on lemmy is pretty comparable to early reddit. People forget it started out as mostly a nerdy programmer centric site as well, and then grew from there. It’s a bit jarring to see people here insisting on artificially creating communities and pushing/guiliting people into posting more just to bring the numbers up. “the narwhal bacon’s at midnight” (although it was always cringe) started because reddit was a niche site less known than 4chan to begin with, so it was just a nonsensical dog whistle.

  Do I miss the focused subreddits around specific topics? Sure, but I also think they will come naturally with time if lemmy survives just as they did with reddit. And the whole reason we’re here today to begin with is because of an unsatiable hunger for growth.

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• smackjack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And a lot less people posting “what’s something that used to be cool, but isn’t now?” posts every single day. It’s gotten to the point where I can usually guess what the top answer will be.

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