• Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.

      • tea
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!