This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think its okay the way it is. Too much attention leads to many reposts, karma farmers, bots, now AI bullshit etc.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 4 points 18 hours ago

To be fair, karma farmers aren't really possible on Lemmy.

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 88 points 1 day ago

I think it's too empty a lot of times. Mainstream topics are nicely populated but a vast amount of specific communities are just one person posting links over and over with a handful of upvotes and zero comments. Sometimes I see posts here and have to go to Reddit to see what the community thinks about it, because on Lemmy the post is completely dead.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I say this in all of these threads: more users does not mean a better experience.

Instead, focus on making our communities the best they can be.

[–] Tywele@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that’s only true after a certain amount of users.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 10 points 1 day ago

I joined Lemmy a couple of years ago and I already notice more user engagement. I would like a little bit more, such that more niche communities can have an ecosystem of posters instead of a single one doing most posts. But not much more indeed