I think it’s a boon that we’re a tiny fraction of Reddit’s size. Reddit is something like 30+ million MAUs and Lemmy dropped recently from 62k to ~50k. We’re a grain of sand compared to Reddit, and I think the community is better for it.

Lemmy isn’t really a Reddit alternative. We’re too small to have niche thriving communities, and depend 100% on sorting your feed by “all” or “local” to get new content. What’s nice is it feels like one close knit community vs closed off micro communities inside of subreddits.

I get exposed to more things this way oddly enough- viewing content I normally wouldn’t in favor of my smaller selection of subreddits. People are more polite, more informative, and far more original with their comments.

Keep on doing your thing, everyone! We’re building something different here.

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    You have a pretty solid comment history and I recognize a good number of your recent comments from posts I’ve read. You’re certainly doing your part!

    In Liftoff it doesn’t show the communities the comments are from, which I think is pretty useless, I don’t know if other apps do. What community are you trying to build up?

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      1 year ago

      I’m using a different account to grow the community. Because I’m one of a few posters there and I’d rather not make life easier for potential doxxers, I’d rather not give out the community name. Don’t want to link two different accounts together as owned by the same person.

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        1 year ago

        Definitely understand! Thank you for contributing all that you do, no matter what pseudonym it’s under!