• Syrc@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It depends, if mods were fully onboard and had a plan it definitely works. Just look at Piracy or Star Trek communities.

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      9 months ago

      And look at the ttrpg.network community for a counterexample, they still have a pinned post on the dndmemes subreddit advertising Lemmy and ttrpgmemes gets like .1% of the traffic dndmemes does. And this is still after a months-long rebellion complete with allowing NSFW and restricting submissions to a single user account, both things that would normally kill a subreddit dead.

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      9 months ago

      I just checked the Star Trek community on reddit and it’s still up with 753k members and 189 online. The Lemmy versions I can find are a fraction of that.

      The idea of Lemmy is great but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking big communities actually migrated.

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        9 months ago

        Depends on what your standard is, to me a community on here having 100+ daily users is already a huge success. I don’t think people expect the whole subreddit to migrate, just enough to have roughly the same amount of content/interaction.

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          9 months ago

          Then its not a migration, which is what we’re talking about.

          If you’re happy leaving a group of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands in some communities for a group of 100 that’s cool, but don’t spin it as a successful migration.

          The rest of the world didn’t even realize we left.