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Just to get it out of the way: there are obviously some issues with lemmy discoverability and quantity of content
But to be blunt: this is not the kind of user lemmy needs right now, he won't be missed. He doesn't want to join a community, he wants to scroll a feed that is pre-curated for him. And to be honest, that is most redditors, for better or for worse, but the core of the site, what gives it most of its value besides just scale, is powerusers and mods who will see: "oh there isn't a formula1 comm yet? I'll make one". Boom. Problem solved. among a userbase of thousands there will be other people who want to talk about F1, but you need at least one person to be engaged enough to create the community and post to it once in a while.
This perspective is fundamentally self-defeating if you want to get an alternative off the ground. It will take off if people get into it, and it won't if they don't
Yeah, this site is in early stages and if someone just wants to be babysat... we literally don't have the manpower for that yet! A smaller dedicated userbase is more important at this stage than mindless growth.