this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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you seem to be under the impression that lemmy wants to be big. i can't speak for the creators, but the vibe among users (except on .world) seems to be that not growing is preferable. changing the social media landscape? why? let people use what they want. why would there need to be an endgame?
like slashdot, digg, and reddit, lemmy is a link aggregator. the community is not the point, it is an emergent feature.
Not sure I agree with this bit. I'm absolutely on board with everything before this...but if community wasn't the point, why have comments, profiles, direct messaging? Pretty sure community is the point.
With you on this. Lemmy isn't a link aggregator to me, it's a ranked-threaded discussion forum, or set of fora.
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...lemmy has profiles and dms? didn't actually know that.
reddit grew those after a huge influx of users demanded them, and i've still never understood why.
neat
The more you know!