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do you think lemmy will ever have millions of users and niche topics or subs like reddit? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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or even be a top result when you search google? like reddit posts

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[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Have a "sorting hat" that will assign people to an instance based on their interests could be good.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Not even interests per se, but rather qualities of the instances like:

do you want nsfw blocked?
do you want downvotes enabled?
do you want more or less defederation from potentially objectionable instances?
etc

Basically all the features that invalidate the "just pick an instance, bro, it doesn't really matter" argument.