So, lemmy is a project I have been following since the beggining. With federation here, it seems like everything is aligned for it to become the reddit killer, pardon my expression.
What do you think is missing from lemmy for it to have a massive engaging community?
Just more people knowing about it. No one knows it exists.
Also, more normie subreddits. A lot of people join reddit for specific communities. The most active Lemmy communities are political or tech focused. Art communities like imaginarycityscapes or nosleep and fan communities for shows and movies draw in a lot of people. Lemmy’s userbase is made up largely of people who are able to comprehend what federation is, which is limited to people who understand what a server even is, which has an impact on the type of content.
I did create a video about it at https://youtu.be/5axSUJj0bBY to try help spread awareness, and on Odysee at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA:4/lemmy-an-open-source-decentralised:4?r=A7MvvHF3JLvcGpn8umRYnJ1oybsg3cse.