I’m curious as to why Lemmy rarely shows up in search results on the main internet even if there is a post related to the search input. I’ve only ever seen a Lemmy result if Lemmy is specified. Is this because we’re still relatively small or some other reason?
Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?
I’d like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you’d say “Yep, that’s a community alright.”?
Yes, you need people. But I’d say Reddit has too many people. The Ethernal September problem: sometimes, small is better.
The thing with Reddit is that it got too big and political. It was open before but yet still fun a decade ago.