[7ewis]

I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment.

What makes Reddit great is the niche smaller communities and the historical data they have (despite the search being awful). Lemmy sadly doesn't have this, small and even some big communities aren't there - wallstreetbets for example. Even subs with 100k+ users have low hundreds of members on Lemmy.

[kramerger]

Well, speaking from experience... most people are waiting for a client that doesn't suck before moving away from reddit.

[corrigible]

I've jumped completely over to lemmy and am mulling writing a bot to replicate external content to my instance (from e.g., unmigrated subreddits);

the UX is fantastic though, tons of original content with almost zero spam. scaling the network seems hard as every event is a POST request (lol) but the community will persevere and overcome this imo

[rglullis]

Did you look into https://lemmit.online?

[mdaniel]

I would encourage you to post that as a separate submission, since I have so many questions (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lemmit.online shows nothing)

[rglullis]

Done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027946

[mgrandl]

I mean the posts are hardly what I visit Reddit for. The true value is in the comments. For posts I could simply use RSS instead.

[rglullis]

Ok. Supposed I go on to write a service that lets you replicate a selection of your favorite subreddits on lemmy. Would you pay for it?

[corrigible]

oh wow, thanks for this!

[squiffsquiff]

You realise that the subscriber count is typically showing only the subscribers from your own instance?