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I'm not sure, tbh. I'm feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.
I've been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what's funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.
You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won't mean much.
We're definitely coming down from the optimism during Rexit. I think Lemmy can still find its vibe and become its own unique thing rather than being a little Reddit copycat. Though it depends on us users being more proactive about participating rather than lurking.
Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?
In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)
But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.
Saw a new post about clients and found "thunder".
Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.
And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.
Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.