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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 4 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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mderazon ◴[22 Jun 23 17:25 UTC] No.36435639[source]▶
Moving entire communities there is going to be challenging
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1. criddell ◴[22 Jun 23 17:39 UTC] No.36435846[source]▶
I don't really think anybody expects that to happen. As long as a large enough number of people move, it can succeed.
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2. n3m4c ◴[22 Jun 23 18:06 UTC] No.36436271[source]▶
But people don’t care. Homelab subreddit created a forum and after 5 days, the number of registered users on that forum is 18. Selfhosted subreddit did the same thing and activity on their forum is similarly low. If people on “selfhosted” subreddit don’t want to move to a selfhosted alternative, I don’t know if there is any hope for other communities.
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3. bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 18:09 UTC] No.36436312[source]▶
These things tend to not work until all of a sudden they do.
4. CodeBytes ◴[22 Jun 23 18:38 UTC] No.36436764[source]▶
The selfhosted community on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted) is up to 12.5k subscribers and seems fairly active so it's possible there might be enough people who care this time for it to work.