People who don’t want to be here, leaving, isn’t necessarily a problem until their absence begins affecting the level of activity.

As long as the total user count keeps growing, that means new people are trying out Lemmy, which should mean new people who actually want to use it, are finding it.

That that is currently happening more slowly than the rate at which people are leaving the platform, isn’t cause for alarm IMO.

Lemmy doesn’t need a billion users, it needs enough to be worth using if it’s something you want to be using, and it does.

Stuff like the Reddit API drama put it in front of a lot of new people, and I think even brought it up to critical mass in terms of user activity. But except for something like that happening again, the only “fixes” I can think of are small and slow ones.

Stuff like spreading knowledge of the fediverse through word of mouth. Or purchasing ads for it with your own money.

I’ve also been playing around with the idea of creating activist stickers that “advertise” federated social media, to place in public around my city.