Until some serious shifts happen in general culture, this will not be happening, and no amount of cold advertising is going to bring this many people. 99% of people will be instantly turned off on virtue of it being a whole ass different website, and a tiny one at that. This is a backwater internet forum, not a trending social media hub.
I definitely think Lemmygrad can do productive things, I myself thought about trying to get people to make some agitprop with me but frankly my life has no time or energy right now. I definitely don’t want to shoot down ideas but I think expecting anything but very slow and modest growth is a little out of our scope–honestly just keeping it alive and not hemorrhaging active users alone is a goal that might be difficult to accomplish.
As others have said, Reddit becoming the next Twitter–rotting beyond repair–will give us a boost, but ONLY if communist communities on Reddit are readily recommendeding us as a safe haven.
We definitely need an expansive ML social media within the next few decades, one that is a hub of all sorts of activity and interests, and Lemmygrad may very well end up being it, or even the skeleton of it. But first and foremost we need more MLs before the demand for an ML social media can be sufficient. This new wave of MLism is definitely growing but it is still quite modest across the internet.
Until some serious shifts happen in general culture, this will not be happening, and no amount of cold advertising is going to bring this many people. 99% of people will be instantly turned off on virtue of it being a whole ass different website, and a tiny one at that. This is a backwater internet forum, not a trending social media hub.
I definitely think Lemmygrad can do productive things, I myself thought about trying to get people to make some agitprop with me but frankly my life has no time or energy right now. I definitely don’t want to shoot down ideas but I think expecting anything but very slow and modest growth is a little out of our scope–honestly just keeping it alive and not hemorrhaging active users alone is a goal that might be difficult to accomplish.
As others have said, Reddit becoming the next Twitter–rotting beyond repair–will give us a boost, but ONLY if communist communities on Reddit are readily recommendeding us as a safe haven.
We definitely need an expansive ML social media within the next few decades, one that is a hub of all sorts of activity and interests, and Lemmygrad may very well end up being it, or even the skeleton of it. But first and foremost we need more MLs before the demand for an ML social media can be sufficient. This new wave of MLism is definitely growing but it is still quite modest across the internet.
Unfortunately, you’re right.
Hopefully not for long!