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why would numbers matter? (beehaw.org)
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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

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Simple. You need a minimum number of people to have a variety of active communities. What that number needs to be is debateable. We actually probably have that now. Before the migration Lemmy had about 1000 active users which was probably kind of thin.