Now it's a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It'll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that's okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I'll do my best to help :)
I agree, there needs to be a plan for content. But I disagree on the means.
I disagree with reposting Reddit. If content isn't unique, people will just go to Reddit. Repeating memes is one thing (it's fun and nostalgic), but wholesale content duplication will just lead to drowning the signal to noise ratio.
We could autopopulate some content. That only works if the comment traffic is there too, or it's just shouting into the void. For example: it doesn't help to have a bot posting Reuters articles automatically to c/news if no one is interacting.
I plan to make a utility for myself to help with my own content. I really want to see c/printSF take off, for example, so I'm going to do my best there. But I can't do it for every community I want to see haha :)
People will only go back to Reddit if the user experience is better, and right now the only remaining Reddit app is a dumpster fire.
I agree that their app sucks. But Lemmy also has a lot of rough edges (particularly a lack of good mod tools).
Also, if you believe reddit's released numbers, only 3% of their users even used third party apps. So maybe their app sucks, but the users are oblivious and will keep using it.
I finally got rid of it for good when I realized it had been running in the background for 21 of the previous 24 hours in spite of having background updates turned off and was killing my battery life. It’s a shit app.