[wdh505]

The user base is largely techy (I think many came from a post from HN). There are a ton of bugs, and most were unnoticed until the users grew from 20k and now is 2M. Lemmy&kbin&mastadon and its associated FOSS android apps (other than browsers) have a lot of growing pains right now. Thankfully, growing pains do not include all 57M of reddit right now, but the users who did come are heavy hitters and power users (moderators).

I expect that Lemmy will grow and some of the frictions (bugs, unclear accounts, insane instance sysadmins, moderation tools at the community/magazine/subreddit level, moderation tools at the instance/server level, etc.) will decrease in time. The two biggest threats are 1) too many consuming-only users and 2) big-tech (im looking at you Facebook) deciding that they need to directly compete.