How exactly did Reddit become a top website and what does Lemmy need to do to eventually get there? - eviltoast

Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    In a way they do. At least the instances don’t compete, but the users do. Example, there could be a meme community on two instances. Users will probably gravitate towards one. The downside is that smaller communities get buried. Most of the smaller communities I’m subbed to on Lemmy don’t ever pop up in my hot/active. Reddit was a bit better I think and smaller/less active communities popped up in my front page more often and felt more balanced. I think the hot algo in Lemmy could be tweaked to be more balanced like that, would also help the competition.