Yeah. It just feels like we need about 50% more users to help populate things a bit more here. Mastodon feels much more active/full to me, probably because it has a year or so already, and Xitter has done some many things to help drive people to alternatives.
I’m pretty happy with Lemmy as it is, but would certainly welcome another influx of people
I think strategic, times windows where sign ups are paused, in order to help distribute users, might be necessary. I don’t think that’s optimal for user experience, but I feel like if volume of sign ups stays where it is, that it’s probably needed.
You can really tell, as posts that used to have 1-2 comments now have 4-5. It’s nice chatting with y’all
I’ve been trying specifically to comment on posts in areas where I want more content with something related to the post. There hasn’t necessarily been more NBA discussions, but I usually get a response from the poster, which is how you start the snowballs rolling I think