In recent days I have seen these two arguments repeated quite commonly. From reddits side it was all about how “noones using Lemmy anyway”
While from Lemmy it was “how numbers have been exploding”
My question is, why do numbers of users matter so much to anyone really? Isnt activity what matters more?
On two questions here I gotten just as much engagement if not more than anything I did on reddit combined
For Lemmy, at least here on Beehaw, it doesn’t and shouldn’t matter. It gets tiring to see people not “get” it, that Lemmy/Beehaw is not here to “compete” or have more “content”, or amount of active users, or keep us entertained and glued to it 24/7, etc.
Some people have this desperate idea that if the admins/devs don’t do something NOW “this opportunity will be lost”. Opportunity for what? This isn’t a corporation, these aren’t employees. This is as old school as you get. Heck, for the upkeep costs alone, it’s better if this doesn’t attract more people. :P
For reddit… Honestly, who cares what they think? If they stayed there after this, they’re really not the sort of people I want to interact with.