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Honestly I feel like there doesn't need to be as many people as reddit has. No one is going to read through 10000 comments so what's the difference if there's only a few hundred
That's fair, and I honestly prefer smaller communities anyway that only get a few hundred responses.
But my main concern is a risk of lack of breadth. With a large userbase, you have more niche communities. If you only have a few thousand active users, you'll probably only have a few dozen active communities, and many won't be of interest to you. I'm having this issue right now, where I'm subbed to 10-20 communities, but only 5 or so actually have regular posts, and many of those are meta posts about Lemmy itself. On Reddit, I was subbed to a fair few more, and most had multiple posts in a given day.
So I'm trying to be proactive in generating content for the communities I'm interested in to hopefully encourage more people to engage. Nobody likes being the only one posting, so I'm trying to be a good example and get the ball rolling.
I got so much abuse posting on reddit that I almost entirely stopped posting content, preferring just to comment. It's going to take me a long time to unlearn that hesitation.
Yeah, I mostly just commented on Reddit and very rarely posted. So I'm going out on a limb here trying to generate enough content to get people to see my relatively niche communities.
Agreed. And, so far, the mood is better here abs comments are much higher quality. I've been using normal forums again for the past few months and I've grown to like smaller communities.