I really don’t think so. The vast majority of internet users just stick with whatever simple thing that serves their need. Lemmy isn’t the most difficult thing, but if reddit already exists and is more popular than people won’t be leaving that for this if they haven’t already.
The boost in people coming here last year was a “last straw” kind of deal from people using reddit who cared enough about not supporting their shit decisions, but by now that has died down and we’ve seen from recent articles that reddit “won” and they have a metric fuckton of users.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
How do you define popular? I think it already is reasonably popular, I see enough activity here that it prompts me to comment at least somewhere on most days. I think it’s going to become more popular over time.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If I saw this question posted the first time I visited Lemmy (some months before the Reddit app drama) with "popular" being defined as the current level of activity, my clear answer would be a loud and clear "probably not".
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Current as in today? Or then-current (pre-exodus)?
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’m pretty happy with its current activity level