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27 points

Not really, it’s way more decentralized than reddit.

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And there is a lot less users.

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Eh, if you go back far enough, there was a time when reddit had fewer users than the fediverse has now.

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I was on reddit 10 years ago. Different vibes than old reddit for sure. Still way less users on Lemmy.

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And a lot less people posting “what’s something that used to be cool, but isn’t now?” posts every single day. It’s gotten to the point where I can usually guess what the top answer will be.

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Mm yes, reddit started with out with tens of thousands of users over night.

I think the situation here on lemmy is pretty comparable to early reddit. People forget it started out as mostly a nerdy programmer centric site as well, and then grew from there. It’s a bit jarring to see people here insisting on artificially creating communities and pushing/guiliting people into posting more just to bring the numbers up. “the narwhal bacon’s at midnight” (although it was always cringe) started because reddit was a niche site less known than 4chan to begin with, so it was just a nonsensical dog whistle.

Do I miss the focused subreddits around specific topics? Sure, but I also think they will come naturally with time if lemmy survives just as they did with reddit. And the whole reason we’re here today to begin with is because of an unsatiable hunger for growth.

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“users” is plural and countable so it should be “are” and “fewer”

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You really need to be ‘that’ guy

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Context.

Here it’s being used a singular group of things.

Like, a herd of cows is a singular thing made up of lots of individual things.

If you lost 50% of the herd, you wouldn’t say you had fewer herd

You’d say you have less of a herd.

But language is what we make it, it’s why the rules are blurry

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I guess I meant more of community/user feel? Whenever I browse reddit (w/o account, don’t hurt me) the popular is full of AITA, AIO and such.

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What’s AIO?

I’ve always hated AITA sooooo much. Everything is so fake and the idiot comments make me want to gouge my eyes out.

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