Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no active here and tbh I see the trend of disappearing activity
No, it likely won’t be as popular. Might be pretty quiet in general, unless (until…) Reddit shits the bed again or something else happens to boost adoption.
I think maybe the design isn’t working ideally, it’s relatively complicated stuff and “federation politics” makes it infinitely worse. I think it’s going to be a hard sell for casual users.
Of course, I don’t think the place is dying off completely any time soon, either. (And the “bunch of nerds” era which we’re at, relatively speaking, was arguably the least sucky Reddit period anyway - you can’t have Reddit’s user count without a large helping of extra toxicity coming with it)