Would you all prefer lemmy as a whole reaches the userbase of reddit, or to remain smaller?

Number doesn’t matter, quality and engagement does. If people make an effort to keep engaging with posts and leaning in, this place will be good no matter the user count. As it is, 100k or so active users seem like enough to keep the flow of posts fresh, but not enough for them to be populated with lots of comments

Couldn't care less about the number. The atmosphere, though...if it could not devolve into absolute user-driven shit, I'd be grateful.

The best part about reddit was a community for everything with users with experience that could answer your question. Whether I needed help configuring a router, help worth a plumbing question, or advice on hiking boots I could find an answer either by searching our posting out I needed something more specific. Number of users helps build that knowledge pool, but so far I prefer the community here much more.

I posted this comment and never would've on reddit lol

The more the merrier. Yes, there will be more shit content, but there will be more quality content and engagement. Small platforms tend to die or become an echo chamber.

I want Lemmy to replace Reddit completely

Bigger. I hate that mentality I see on Mastodon where they want to fuck up the network to keep it small for minorities or whatever the dumb reason. More people, more content, and more people who have social media freedom. Decentralization is healthy and freedom, and I think it should downright replace modern social media entirely.

The people here seem generally nicer and more engaging. The level of content is pretty solid but it will be hard to grow the niche type of communities that people relied on for quality information without growing significantly. That will then attract the lurker style people who I’m guessing were responsible for a lot of the negative things about Reddit. Downvoting without commenting, commenting fluff, etc

I didn't mind the number of people on Reddit, I had a problem with Reddit itself being greedy. If something shitty happens here I can move instances or host my own. That's why I'm here now, so I don't really care how big it grows.

I'd prefer a slow but steady rise instead of explosive one. Instance like Lemmy.world just couldn't take the heavy load any further without Lemmy fixing the issue(iirc there's a bug causing high load with no apparent reason).

As for the growth, idk, i feels like lemmy cannot realistically pull majority of Reddit user unless Lemmy also turn to reddit, like have the feature that appeal to general masses. So i think it's much better to remain low while grow steadily. Not like we have the choice tbh.

I remember almost two years ago seeing more reposts than ever on Reddit, and how the top comments were never original. Made me reminiscent of 2015-era reddit when it was popular enough for mindless content, but not just another social media site. I want lemmy to be like that

I would like Lemmy to still gain in popularity, the subs I'm subscribed to are still pretty dead, and I'm still going back to Reddit for some specific band related subs.

Definitely don't think it needs to be near as big as Reddit though, the reposts to whore for karma, and overdone shit-posting and bots that come from something that big are not missed.

I've liked lemmy just the way it is from the beginning. I don't expect it to stay as intimate with this vibe of solidarity and critical thinking, but I'm enjoying the ride. I have always preferred smaller communities in every facet of my life. Small friend groups, small classroom, etc. Once you hit a certain number, things go off the rails fairly quickly ime. But in the end, if we can grow, and keep this same kinda culture moving forward? Imagine that, people coming together for common good.

I think the fewer people subjected to secret algorithms the better.

Would you had asked me that half of a year ago, I say no. However, nowadays, Lemmy seems to be alive and useable. So yeah

Both. I think the general federated thread universe is going to be very general. And then you're going to have instances where you talk about your niche content. And those communities can coexist in the same architecture. This growth period is very important for the ecosystem, nailing down discovery, reputation, spam control, we're going to have to go through those growing pains just like Reddit did in the past.

The way it is right now is super nice, good engagement, not a ton of extremism, overall it definitely has a sense of community that reddit never had for me after the early "narwhal bacons" phase

Federation means that we can maybe just keep it up perpetually moving from any servers we dislike

Towards the end a vast number of Reddit users ended up being bots, or used for spam of other kinds of manipulation. And for the rest the majority were karmawhores that didn't drive engagement or provided any constructive content. The federation can be big, but keep Lemmy instances small and keep the content fresh. Promote diversification.

Remain smaller. It seems more like a community than reddit ever did.

Bigger better. More eyes, more crowds, more resources, more anonymity. Um, and better OC porn.

For now id settle for just being able to curate my feed better but it's exhausting

I would like the option to have reddit federate with Lemmy

When will you people move on? If you miss the other site so much, go back. Every 5th goddamn post lately is about , or comparing to, or pining away over that other site. Get over your ex or go back.