I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.

How about creating some communities too? I’d love some high quality educational communities moderated by a museum

So many companies will be at the mercy of Anguilla

Thanks! I’d never down vote a language I don’t know, but I didn’t know this was an option.

I think it’s too hard to remember both a username and an instance for every user of note. My proposition is simply there being one instance for people actually trying to create a presence. It wouldn’t impact any other users anonymity.

If you want the network to grow organically you need content to attract people there. There are content creators that use Reddit as their primary platform and it’s a big part of their growth. You don’t need to worry about lemmy getting corrupted because it’s open source and distributed. I don’t think having content creators is the problem, it’s having the platform being monitized around it that is.

Lemmy is big enough that we don’t need to wait for that. We can grow organically, but there are still some issues that need to get worked out. One issue is that lemmy is too anonymous and that leads to it not attracting content creators that don’t actually want to be anonymous and want to create a presence. I rarely see high effort OC on lemmy and I think that’s a big reason for it. People that create content that takes tens of hours to create aren’t going to bother with a platform with no kind of verification option where they can show that they’re actually the real creator and not a copycat account since you can have the same username on any instance. I think that could be fixed if there were a special instance for verified accounts only that content creators or notable individuals could use to post from.