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[–] Albert_Newton@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From 86000 members to 300. Hopefully Reddit backs down.

[–] Interesting@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Either Reddit will back down, or it will very quickly grow. I would worry more for /r/startrek, but this community doesn't have a peer anywhere else.

[–] Bonolio@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not going to grow much.
95% of redditors won't make the shift.
The Startrek community on Reddit is just going to start spinning up new subreddits to replace the ones that were closed.
Sure, it will take some time for the new communities to reestablish but it will happen.

I support and regularly use federated systems and support the principals of the Startrek subs that have moved, but the reality is that societally/practically we are a long way from people choosing to move away from the various MegaSocials.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've had people try to spin up alternates for years and they haven't taken off, except with certain groups of people who can't help but miss the entire point of Star Trek.

The moderators are as much responsible for the community as the platform is. These communities are growing exceedingly fast, and it's not like Lemmy isn't just slightly jankier old.reddit anyway.

[–] Bonolio@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I suspect people being people there will be a larger surge to the Fediverse once third party apps start failing.
Just to be clear, I have no objections to the move, and agree with the stance, I just have doubts about people leaving their places of convenience.
In general I find the kind of person that moves to the fediverse to more interesting anyway.
Wishing this community success