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Does Lemmy need to grab more users in the first place? I'd rather interact with people genuinely interested in such a model, not salty refugees seeing it as a compromise inferior to what they lost. Nah, I'm good as we are now.
Yes it does need more users. If you are not into Linux, Politics, Tech, and Cats, your feed looks much less populated. I'm not saying that Lemmy needs to have hundreds of millions of users, but it would be nice for most people if the userbase grew more.
Minor addition: Lemmy needs more active users. A lot of redditfugees seem to have created their own instances the moment they arrived here, only to expect other people to fill the communities with content and then abandon the site once they realised they would have to put actual work into their communities instead of just being squatters with mod rights. There are a lot of gaming-related communities here that I personally would be interested in joining if they weren't abandoned and devoid of content (like Cult of the Lamb or Spiritfarer for example).
It would be really nice if active Lemmy users would "adopt" a few of those abandoned communities to add content and pull in more subscribers. "Only" having more people overall on the site doesn't do much if this does not lead to more content / discussions / interaction.
I would argue this is more damaging than most things for places like Lemmy. The wrong people pick up the communities and just abandon them or completely mismanage them. Can't be helped though.
That's already happening, but the ability to "adopt" communities helps to combat that. You can go to !support@lemmy.world and request to take over abandoned communities created by others, provided the original creator has been inactive and the community really IS abandoned / unmoderated. That way, someone who is actually interested in doing something for / with the community gets put in charge for a second chance (instead of the community name squatter being allowed to block the community name forever).
I adopted !totk@lemmy.world a couple of months ago for xample. It didn't have a sidebar, rules, banner, icon, and the original creator had contributed zero content, so even tho that game is popular at the moment, there was barely anything interesting in there (plus some offtopic posts that were simply never removed). Now it has 2.6k subscribers and a steady stream of content, and offtopic stuff / insulting comments and the like actually get removed.
I also adopted !cultofthelamb@lemmy.world yesterday by the way, so the above comment that this community is "abandoned and devoid of content" is no longer true ;) maybe I should edit that ... hm.
Long story short, I still think adopting abandoned communities is a good thing. provided the "adopter" is active enough themselves to make the community thrive.