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Lemmy is booming
(rytter.me)
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
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Hey, welcome! Thank you for your contribution to the network :D
As for discoverability, it is a problem yet to be properly solved. For now, I'd suggest making a launch post and share your communities in the many posts that have recently popped around (e.g https://lemmy.pt/post/36126)
Yeah that's what I've been doing so far, for new users it's pretty clear why they're mostly just hanging out in lemmy.ml. Getting the word out about outside communities is a bit difficult, but hopeful. I'm viewing all of this as a perfect "Reddit gave Lemmy a window to view painpoints and minimize them before a larger exodus". I don't think we'll see anything like the migration from Digg, but I see a lot of people who will be open to alternatives if Reddit goes through with this end of month. Right now it's "How do we funnel them" when they drop the hammer.
The time you see a system's weakness most clearly is definitely when stressing it in a real scenario. The goal is to improve further each time we get an influx of users :)