How can we make lemmy have more relevance?

Do we want lemmy having more relevance?
I like how it is. Most people is cool, one can exchange ideas with some sort of freedom. It's nice here

https://lemmy.ca/post/2409336

Comment on stuff I guess. Don't worry about it. It seems to have already taken off.

I say upvote stuff more. Like a lot more. We like to watch the number go up, and the more we see it the more we engage, which should attract more users.
- Just for that insight I will up vote you
  
  Boom!

In my opinion people focus too much on what lemmy could be and are failing to appreciate what it is.
Engaging with the platform as it is will better attract others than going elsewhere and promising things that lemmy might not ever be.
- are failing to appreciate what it is.
  A firehose of US politics and bad news?
  
  Lemmy is a platform without an algorithm, the content curation is in your hands.
  My feed is shitposts and cute animals, if you don't like what you see then unsubscribe from those communities.
  
  This is where I feel piefed is better for onboarding new threadiverse users, from reddit or elsewhere.
  On sign up, they ask you for some topics you'd like to see, ask about how you want to see US politics being in your feed, and lastly they have set topics feed already that you can choose to view.
  Personally I think piefed is the next good iteration of the threadiverse. It's an in between of having to curate your feeds on your own (Lemmy and mbin) and algorithmic feed (reddit and other thread based social media).
  Desktop use is already good, although personally I'd like Tesseract front end support. Mobile still needs to be picked up by more apps personally. Interstellar is good, but I like the "read on scroll" and "hide read posts" from Thunder. Despite that though, it's also good already on mobile browsers
- I could not agree more like the early web before it became popular enough for corporations to take notice and start exploiting it. Cherish being under the radar and enjoy the community that's already here. More will come when they are ready just be ready to welcome them when they do.
- I'm a big fan of what it is, but I'd love if there was something unique people could come here for, I'm describing it terribly though.
  
  It's already unique. I can't get what I get here anywhere else.
  
  Lemmy is like a cafe, not like a stadium.
- Aye - rather than how, why? I do not mind a smaller community.

Just keep participating. Other platforms will occasionally explode, people will look here, and if they see activity, many will stay.
If you look at active user charts for Lemmy, basically every time Reddit explodes, Lemmy picks up permanent users.
- This really is the key.
  The more people comment the less it will feel like we are talking into a void. It feels good to engage with people and not bots
  Seeing that little notification glow brings the warm and fuzzies.
- Yeah just use it as normal and have patience.
  Only reason I'm here is after getting arbitrarily banned from reddit for the 3rd time and refusing to make a new one.

Contributing.

Methinks we need even more Linux discussions/debates/arguments.
- To keep it accessible we need to remember that most people have only heard of one or two distros
  
  And Slackware, of course.
- Even the old monolithic sites started out with a lot of tech folks as the initial population. It's tech. Such is the way of things.
  Here maybe the effect is stronger because of the similar ethos between the Fediverse and free software like Linux.
  Give it time.
  
  This year is the year of the Linux desktop because every year is the year of the Linux desktop. It just gets better and better all the time. It's only companies that need fast exponential growth we can play the long game.
- Obvs what we need is our own Linux distro and it helps you self host your own instance
  e: we can call it Lemmux

By participating on it, mainly. The more people notice that using Lemmy is a way to kill boredom and stay informed about things they are interested in, the more people will look here instead of (or in addition to) reddit or Facebook or other places.

Do we need to?
- I NEED MORE MEMES
  
  here you go:
- It would be nice to hear about it in other places.
  
  If you have a community in mind sure try to bring em along. But overall I don't think Lemmy needs infinite growth like Reddit does.
  I've watched a lot of forums grow, corrupt, die, move, etc. This is kinda a sweet spot right now.

Like other people said, just keep coming back and participating. Lemmy is gaining users and lots of communities are very active. I'm rotting my brain very well around these parts.

It's the content that makes a platform relevant. So follow the usual youtube call to action.
Subscribe, comment, share and post.
Don't bother preaching, it's a waste of breath and is just annoying to the average person.

By not letting AI slop take over

I'm satisfied with the status quo. Maybe I'd like to see more entertaining satire communities. I still visit the r/comics subreddits from time to time and stuff like r/atbge, r/fuckmyshitup. Stuff like that.
And multis. I loved my multireddits.