How many millions of users does it have? How many posts? How active are they?

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Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?

“Millions of users” is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small – assuming you’re interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active “Lemmy” is is entirely dependent on which topics you’re interested in.

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There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don’t get too large.

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Hasn’t Lemmy sort of already accomplished that both with federated servers and communities?

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No. Federation means I’m on a mbin serner and still interacting with lemmy. If a community goes big there is no way to enforce who goes to which split.

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yes, the only benefit more users would have is allowing niche games/topics to have flourishing communities within it.

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