Reddit is doing the Fediverse a huge favor - eviltoast

While I don’t expect there’s going to be any meaningful impact on Reddit once the dust settles, I do think this will bring a lot of new users to the Fediverse.

Reddit losing a few hundred thousand users is a drop in a bucket given their user base, but it is a significant boost for us.

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    1 year ago

    Fediverse does not need to have million of users. Fediverse only need enough users to mature the technology and ecosystem.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I completely agree, the total number of users isn’t really that important. The three things that count are having enough users to generate interesting content, developers who can develop the ecosystem, and people hosting instances. As long as these three things can be done sustainably then the Fediverse will be around indefinitely, and will likely outlast all the existing commercial platforms.

      Too much rapid growth can also be a negative because it can disrupt the existing culture and normalize negative behaviors on mainstream platforms. When the growth is gradual then new people are more likely to adjust to the existing community norms.

  • Mac@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    New users is not a good metric. Many people will create accounts just to check it out even if they dont stay.
    I’ve made multiple Lemmy accounts on different servers.

  • MyOpinion@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is going to work like the Mastodon migrations. It will come in waves as Reddit does more and more shitty stuff.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Most likely, and this works well because it allows time for server capacity to grow and for wrinkles to get ironed out gradually. Fediverse would have a hard time absorbing millions of people all at once, but a gradual trickle of users allows things to grow organically.

  • Hedup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The individual instances doesn’t really matter. What is actually shown in the picture is that fediverse grew by 200k users.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      It actually does matter for the individual instances because the amount of content and interactions grows regardless which server users join because servers federate with each other. This is a fundamentally different dynamic from commercial walled gardens where each platform competes for users with every other.