Just keep participating. Other platforms will occasionally explode, people will look here, and if they see activity, many will stay.
If you look at active user charts for Lemmy, basically every time Reddit explodes, Lemmy picks up permanent users.
Yeah just use it as normal and have patience.
Only reason I’m here is after getting arbitrarily banned from reddit for the 3rd time and refusing to make a new one.
This really is the key.
The more people comment the less it will feel like we are talking into a void. It feels good to engage with people and not bots
Seeing that little notification glow brings the warm and fuzzies.
In my opinion people focus too much on what lemmy could be and are failing to appreciate what it is.
Engaging with the platform as it is will better attract others than going elsewhere and promising things that lemmy might not ever be.
I could not agree more like the early web before it became popular enough for corporations to take notice and start exploiting it. Cherish being under the radar and enjoy the community that’s already here. More will come when they are ready just be ready to welcome them when they do.
I’m a big fan of what it is, but I’d love if there was something unique people could come here for, I’m describing it terribly though.
It’s already unique. I can’t get what I get here anywhere else.
Aye - rather than how, why? I do not mind a smaller community.
Methinks we need even more Linux discussions/debates/arguments.
To keep it accessible we need to remember that most people have only heard of one or two distros
Obvs what we need is our own Linux distro and it helps you self host your own instance
e: we can call it Lemmux
Do we need to?
I NEED MORE MEMES
It would be nice to hear about it in other places.
If you have a community in mind sure try to bring em along. But overall I don’t think Lemmy needs infinite growth like Reddit does.
I’ve watched a lot of forums grow, corrupt, die, move, etc. This is kinda a sweet spot right now.
Do we want lemmy having more relevance?
I like how it is. Most people is cool, one can exchange ideas with some sort of freedom. It’s nice here
Like other people said, just keep coming back and participating. Lemmy is gaining users and lots of communities are very active. I’m rotting my brain very well around these parts.
