Now it's a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It'll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that's okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I'll do my best to help :)
I think something to consider is that we are just over a month out from the Reddit blackout where you would expect to see a significant drop from those who checked things out for a couple days while Reddit was down, then left. I'd be curious to see what the stats look like a week from now.