Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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    I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It’s where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.

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      Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.

      Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.

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        I disagree about being content with a small user base, I want more niche communities beyond News/Politics, Linux/FOSS, and memes.

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            My niche community on lemmy is 5 months old . It took me 1 month on digg to have more subscribers on it than on the lemmy counterpart with a very smaller userbase. More people contribute in the digg community then on lemmy too