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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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I'm not sure, tbh. I'm feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.
I've been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what's funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.
You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won't mean much.
Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?
In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)
But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.
Saw a new post about clients and found "thunder".
Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.
And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.
Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.