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Do we really want Lemmy's userbase to grow and assimilate "normies"? (lemmy.world)
submitted 15 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I know the word normies may have weird connotations, but I just mean that, regular everyday people.

I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot and even recommended it to a few close friends who are working in tech. But I would like Lemmy to be way bigger, maybe have those makefriends communities like reddit has, be it gaming friends, just for chatting, for voicecalls, etc etc...

But I also wonder, could growing Lemmy indiscriminately be a bad thing? As you relax filters and barriers to entry, yes, more people can come in, but I have a feeling the quality of the people might go down aswell.

Is a clique-like platform what Lemmy is supposed to be like? Or is it supposed to try and absorb as much users as possible and be just a user-managed user-owned reddit alternative with no ads and less censorship?

I believe the answer may lie somewhere in the middle, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, as I'm a total newbie on here.

(Also I understand private dms on Lemmy are not secure, but you can keep the idea of the "r4r" community and just drop a matrix or session link in dms, not perfect as the admins can be what username you sent out, but at least it ends there)

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[–] [S] 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child)

Sorry to get to your message this late, for some reason I missed this notification, yes, my account it less than a week old, (Ad Hominem, I don't think the age of my account has anything to do with whatever I say, you should engage with what I'm saying instead of going after my personal characteristics like how old my account is)

I'm trying to find the place in my post where I opened a discussion about changing anything, and I don't seem to be able to find the spot, so please let me know if I'm missing anything. I said I'm enjoying Lemmy, what I PERSONALLY would like to happen to Lemmy, then questions to try and learn from more seasoned users in the site about what they thing the site should be like, if it should grow or not, and what types of people if any should we try not to include.

I don't see any place where a fixed position is set like: "We ought to do X", I just see questions for both sides of the argument in the post I sent, for Lemmy to grow/Stay on the smaller side etc...

But please let me know if there's anything wrong or off about what I said, without using a logical fallacy. If I have, I have no issues retracting/revising what I said/apologizing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    "I don't think the previous social network of my account has anything to do with whatever I say, you should engage with what I'm saying instead of going after my personal characteristics like which network I'm coming from."

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