Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:
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I wouldn’t worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)
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Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren’t yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.
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Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit’s leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.
Do you have accounts on two (or more) servers?
I think, for now anyway, that that is something everyone should do, hear me out!
I have a server up and running but no users, I would be relieved if people subscribed but not with their sole account for the whole lemmyverse.
So if you want a quick server, for an alt account/backup account head over to lemmy.mindoki.com!
I might be slow at accepting, I have a full-time job, but it will be done!
I see no point personally in actively using more than one account.
If you want many users registered on your instance, I suggest you make the server about a general topic people can identify with. E.g. programming.dev is generally about programming, so it hosts communities for all sorts of programming languages. It seems like you like art, maybe make the server about art generally or a (popular) direction of art and advertise your instance with that. I don’t think we have an instance about art yet
hobbit.world has some great LotR related art btw.
Good tip
Hey thank you and except my computer related hobbies&work I do like the arts very much :-)
I have a super user on the server otherwise I’m trying to use only one account too, mostly because hopefully my instance won’t get DDOSed all the time!