• @[email protected]
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    2010 months ago

    It doesn’t need to take down reddit. I’d like to see Lemmy at 1 million active users though. Just need enough critical mass to be able to branch into more smaller sublemmys which draws in the fans of those subs specifically and creates better curated content.

    • @N00dle
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      810 months ago

      Yeah, 1 million would be about the right size for a better active community. 500k would probably do wonders too.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      310 months ago

      at 1 million active users though. Just need enough critical mass to be able to branch into more smaller sublemmys which draws in the fans of those subs specifically

      I was responding kind of someone else as well, but where are these numbers coming from?

      Is it truly 1 million? Or maybe 500k? Or maybe 2 million?

      People seem to be using numbers so arbitrarily.

      • @cmbabul
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        310 months ago

        I think somewhere between 1-4 million would be a good cross section of interests without a critical mass of users

        • Cosmic Cleric
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          310 months ago

          I think somewhere between 1-4 million would be a good cross section

          500K (for example) people talking in communities wouldn’t be enough?

          How did you derive the 1-4 million number?

          • @cmbabul
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            410 months ago

            Just a really quick estimate based on the size of the subreddits I once enjoyed that by their nature need to be larger. Things like /r/cfb, /r/nba, /r/FreeFolk