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However, due to the smaller size you do lose a lot of the activity in more niche communities and the sheer volume of posts/comments compared to Reddit.

That also leads to a lack of diversity of opinions.

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Same as reddit when it was new.

I’d actually say Lemmy feels larger over the same timeframe, but that’s just sticking my thumb up in the air sort of measurement.

The problem with growth is that too much, and it ends up trolls and bots making up the majority, and too little growth means it withers on the vines.

With federation (and the ability to defederate), I think the ideal ground can be found. We’ll see though!

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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Part of the difference I see on Lemmy is that there can be multiples of the same topic area being discussed on different instances with no connection between them and no straightforward method of determining which instance will have the more active discussion.
  
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  - curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Active subscriber count should be the more active one, but I agree.
    
    Ideally we’d have native multi a communities right now, so I could see all of my subscribed Linux communities in my Linux multi, all of my subscribed ttrpg in the ttrpg multi, etc.
    
    Definitely an improvement that could be in place. I think letting the user combine the groups to see would be best, because then you can group how you’d like. Having multiple communities with similar topics is no different than reddit, but reddit has multis.
    
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  - Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Usually the number of monthly active users is a good indication
    
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    kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Of course, but you’ve still got to hunt through a dozen instances to find the most active ones.
    
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davi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
i think there’s plenty diversity outside of .world

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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s part of the issue. There’s a hundred instances that each have their own version of most of the subs, and none of them can see each other without users having to find and follow each of them, or at least look at them to find the most active 2 or 3.
  
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