Like with most things, more is better until it isn’t. Non-niche subreddits are night impossible to have any meaningful discussion on because there’s too much damn noise.
Comment on Reddit is a shithole
eee@lemm.ee 2 years agoFor a site like reddit/lemmy, more is better. You need enough users that you can find any niche community u want.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
SneakyWeasel@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You can absolutely have the opposite example. I’m subbed to a bunch of niche Lemmy instances, and no one has posted anything in there for literally months.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yup, that’s the trade-off. A reasonable solution is to use Reddit (with adblocking on) for niche discussion only and Lemmy for anything else.
eee@lemm.ee 2 years ago
yes, but it’s easier to create a smaller subreddit and get a sustainable subscriber base, than to create a niche community on lemmy and hope that people eventually stumble onto it.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I guess I would rather have less bots, trolls and angry assholes than have more niche communities.
1847953620@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I respect that, but I personally do value the goldmine of pragmatic advice and answers that virtually only reddit provided so quickly