Do you think that the value of the Fediverse is the "community" in itself? Is this why you are participating here and not on Reddit? Is all your effort on the communities and in promoting Lemmy/kbin as alternatives because you are defending some ideal where social media can be run strictly by volunteers?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You want the Fediverse to replace Twiter/Reddit/Facebook, so billions of users.

I want a Reddit alternative to reach 100k monthly active users. I don't need the Fediverse to be used by everyone, I just want a place to discuss with enough people.

If you can find a way to finance the Fediverse to pay full time jobs to admins, kudos to you. I just don't think that's realistic (we touch on that on another comment thread https://feddit.org/post/6620726/4078921 )

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago

I want a Reddit alternative to reach 100k monthly active users.

We have that already. The Fediverse as a whole has 1M MAU. Absolutely nothing stopping you from using kbin to follow discussions via groups and/tags.

My point is: the actual number doesn't really matter. What matters for us to have this place feel "alive" is that it needs to become an actual hub for global conversations. We have achieved that for some groups (e.g, tech and urbanism) but for everything else is mostly a desert, and this is only going to change when we get rid of the current incumbents.