Aside from the currently low number of users, the fact that you can have the same community in different instances means a community will never grow large enough.
Isn't [email protected] an example of a community which grew large enough to become the reference?
Curious to see where they'll go with that one
Thank you for posting!
I'm not
[email protected] is more active than [email protected] in monthly active users.
Same for [email protected] and [email protected], which also doesn't have any moderator besides bot accounts.
[email protected] definitely outclasses any other piracy community
[email protected] is the most active for green text
[email protected] is the best community for maps
About mods power tripping, you can have a look at [email protected] . I reported there an example which shows that you can create a better community over a power tripping mod.
You're correct
Like, we don’t have AskHistorians here,
There's [email protected] , but it indeed lacks actual historians
For the country and town communities, I'm always impressed how busy the [email protected] daily threads are
Also it feels relatively empty even though there’s data to back there being half a million users.
45k monthly active users
Looking for information on Discord can be quite tedious
It's also a governance problem as well.
If a billionaire buys LW tomorrow for a few millions because they host most of the Lemmy active communities and users, and prevent instance migration overnight, how many users are going to go through the hassle of creating new accounts from scratch, create new communities? That could kill the platform, with the LW starting to show ads and only being compatible with an enshitiffied app, so most users would probably go back to Reddit.
Also, there has been some concerning behaviour from LW mods, which know they can just go with it as people are already on their communities and are not going to move: https://lemmy.world/post/20947890?scrollToComments=true