Two things matter: (1) Content (2) Accessibility to the content.
For (1), we need more active participations and generate more content.
For (2), the mechansim of remote community discovery and subscription are still very tedious and error prone. Not only the remote community is not visible to the instance (Yes I know it’s lazy fetching but it still does not work somehow for some remote community subscriptions), but also the lack of integration of community browser are still hard for general users.
In the last few days I have spent countless hours to try community subscriptions on a number of instances.
A handful of them. The fragmentation of lemmy is yet to be improved. It is common for me trying to subscribe to remote community that the remote community is not found or the instance is in “Blocked Instances”.
This is bad for general users since they will not be patient or bother to open multiple accounts across multiple instances.