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I feel like Lemmy will only grow from here.
So many old subs have popped up and become properly active.
I find that a lot of Lemmy people are positing a vision that won’t exist, which is that there’s going to be a great migration to Lemmy. I don’t think that’s going to happen.
But the key is that you don’t need the hundreds of millions that Reddit has. You can argue that you don’t even want it.
What I want is a return to the 2000-era bulletin board-type numbers where each community would have on the order of a few hundred or thousand active participants.
The thing is, I suspect the Fediverse could do both.
There might one day be giant single instances, that are in themselves, a reddit, but also tiny ones with tiny communities just doing their own thing.
I don't think Lemmy or the fediverse will go down anytime soon, but I'm not imagining some sudden spike of explosive growth beyond what we've already seen. I don't think anyone does.
We're just optimistic about the future of this incarnation of social media!