You can feel the consistency of the current userbase, especially in the more active communities. I'm glad to see it.
- It’s been awesome watching things grow, and seeing the community develop its own personality, beans and all
  
  Yeah for a while Lemmy kinda felt like we-have-Reddit-at-home but nowadays I'm reminded of how it felt in Reddit's early days (ie: less exhausting), but older and wiser.
- The only thing that sucks that some of the smaller subs don't really have them active user base over here, so I'm still forced to use Reddit for those
  
  I often find that if I'm having an issue or want general answers about something, I still stick "reddit" at the end of the search, but I never just open it to browse niche subs even though I am missing the equivalent here.
- I'm so glad the Trek communities moved here from reddit. Whenever I go back there it just feels empty somehow, in spite of the still much larger userbase.
  
  Someone just had to mention that Federation was involved, and that's all it took.
The shitposters of c/risa : "we're doing our part!"
So all people I reply to and see here are like one big village, minus alts and nsfw accounts. It's not bad. For once, I started to recognize persons behind a half of quality risa posts, like I did with niche reddit subs before. That's what I want from a community, too see it tight-knit and filled with dedicated posters. It feels healthy and encourages to participate.
It's like the entire site is the size of a small subreddit.
- 36k is referring to daily active users, not total accounts, so the whole network is more comperable to a single medium-large subreddit.
  
  I'm happy with that, honestly.
  I have quality conversations with quality users because it hasn't been diluted.
- Which is weirdly ideal, if what you want is a sense of actual community.
  Once you get to metropolitan numbers, you get the same paradoxical disconnectedness that you find in a densely-populated city.
Very cool. Happy to be here and enjoying helping the community grow!

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