• PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You don’t have to walk away, you can migrate.

    We tried that with Lemmy and many great communities only have one or two people posting consistently.

    Most people don’t care about behind the scenes

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 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.

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          8 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.

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            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.

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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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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                    8 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?