• @Syrc
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    33 months ago

    It depends, if mods were fully onboard and had a plan it definitely works. Just look at Piracy or Star Trek communities.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      And look at the ttrpg.network community for a counterexample, they still have a pinned post on the dndmemes subreddit advertising Lemmy and ttrpgmemes gets like .1% of the traffic dndmemes does. And this is still after a months-long rebellion complete with allowing NSFW and restricting submissions to a single user account, both things that would normally kill a subreddit dead.

    • @PrettyLights
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      33 months ago

      I just checked the Star Trek community on reddit and it’s still up with 753k members and 189 online. The Lemmy versions I can find are a fraction of that.

      The idea of Lemmy is great but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking big communities actually migrated.

      • @Syrc
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        23 months ago

        Depends on what your standard is, to me a community on here having 100+ daily users is already a huge success. I don’t think people expect the whole subreddit to migrate, just enough to have roughly the same amount of content/interaction.

        • @PrettyLights
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          13 months ago

          Then its not a migration, which is what we’re talking about.

          If you’re happy leaving a group of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands in some communities for a group of 100 that’s cool, but don’t spin it as a successful migration.

          The rest of the world didn’t even realize we left.

          • @Syrc
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            It’s 100 daily interacting, which is much more than 100 subscribers. And Reddit doesn’t have daily users statistics so you can’t really know how many of those 700k are still using the site. Some might have not even logged for the past 14 years. I’d say actual daily users are less than 10k, maybe not even 2/3k looking at upvotes.

            The statistics are not comparable, but as long as a community managed to form in here I’d say it’s still a success.

            • @PrettyLights
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              13 months ago

              I’d say actual daily users are less than 10k

              So 100 times bigger, by your own estimate?

              They created a new community, sure. The reddit community didn’t migrate though.

              • @Syrc
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                13 months ago

                Less than 100 times. That was a high estimate. Top post in the past 24h has like 900 upvotes, that means 9 times at a bare minimum estimate.

                And no one expected the whole community, or even a majority, to move to Lemmy. There was a (partial) migration, and to the end user it doesn’t mean that much if their post is viewed by 100 or 1000 people. A hundred people are plenty to just discuss a tv series.

                • @PrettyLights
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                  13 months ago

                  So if a poster from the Star Trek Lemmy moves to Facebook Groups and brings along a small fraction of the userbase, is it fair to say the Star Trek Lemmy community migrated to Facebook?

                  • @Syrc
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                    13 months ago

                    I’d say it’s fair to say “there has been a migration” from Lemmy to Facebook, in that case.

                    It’s not like the definition itself matters though, the important thing is the end user experience and that’s pretty much been replicated with a community of that size.