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[–] Nelots@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels... empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.

I'm using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.

[–] KirbyQK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn't drop off before then

[–] TrustedTyrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my problem so far. I've been leaving subreddits I can live without and trying to use Lemmy for general browsing, but some of the smaller subreddits can't be replaced.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is why I made !dragonquest@lemmy.world

The 2 subs on reddit I really cared about were for Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire. I can't devote enough time to build multiple communities and figured DQ has enough fans that it had a better chance of growing.

[–] Matdan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Basically same boat a lot of smaller gaming communities haven't moved here. Also Combat Footage and Ukraine don't seem to be moving here enough to keep me off Reddit.