How can we make it more popular?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Lemmy got a HUGE influx of users from the Reddit fiasco. Of course, there was going to be a pull back.
What is going to determine if Lemmy becomes popular is if it has reached critical mass to start growing organically on its own.
as a recent refuge myself. Some random thoughts.
Things that will help, hobby groups moving here. And other interest groups. Not expecting everyone to code, be a privacy advocate, or a political extremist.
Solving some of the fundamental issues around "federation" and ease of use for the average user that just wants to post about cars, hobby, etc
Actually WANTING more users. There is a non small portion that activity is toxic to new users who came from Reddit just to escape.
I really don't get the growth hostile crowd. Things are barely alive right now and they are fine with more people leaving.
Top post says Lemmy is big enough.
Um, no. All my hobby subs either don't exist or have no content. All my local community subs either don't exist or have no content.
I don't want r/pics or r/politics, but I do want to talk about my hobbies and local happenings in my Canadian city.
Shit, there's not even an active community on lemmy for New York. The Toronto one on lemmy.ca is at least somewhat active, but not very lively. If lemmy can't even get a critical mass for the biggest metro areas in North America, we're never going to see communities for even medium sized cities.
I'd settle for even general sports communities based on college football or NFL, I've given up team specific communities.