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Definitely. It's going to take time though, since we're directly competing with all those pre-existing specialty subs over there, which complicates things a little.
I hope the Fediverse can make a way to see reachable from search engines, I think that'd help.
If our threads become the ones people reference to they will be.
Kbin doesn't require javascript and since they federate with lemmy they will get all the search engine traffic.
The beauty of it is that "Lemmy" doesn't have to get big all by itself.
I'm commenting this from kbin.social.
As more people join the fediverse we are going to see more niche instances of lemmy, kbin, all kinds of things. And those niche communities are going to create niche content.
I had never modded before in my life but when I joined the fediverse I made a community for what I want to see, because the fediverse is exciting and I want to be part of what we are doing here. I bet lots of people feel like this!
I'm starting to see it already. Even just a month ago, most niche subs were nonexistent. Some are popping up now, albeit with very little engagement
Yea it's great to see. I think we'll probably have most big triple A game communities running in a few months. Not at reddit-levels of engagement certainly, but they'll be useful spaces. Enough population to answer specific gaming questions, which is the real hook that pulls people in.