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It seems like there needs to be people who know how to build an instance community. It would be great to have a history, philosophy, psychology instance that someone builds into a thriving community of experts. Same for science, music, photography and a dozen things others are interested in. They donβt need to be niche or dogmatic, but there should be a reason to join.
Many people seem to think the constrained by design, under active development flagship is going to spawn reddit level communities, but the point of the whole thing is to go build or find your own. So far several of the instances have been regional or politically divisive which seems to serve a need, but online-extroverted leaders with a desire to put themselves out there seem few and far between (those can build are probably building for-profit exit strategy communities).
Anyway, if there was something missing, I would say community builders.
Yes this one. But you can't force this kind of thing. They will come spontaneously or they won't.
The only thing we could possibly do is publicise lemmy better. It is too well hidden and unknown.
The other thing could be, thinking of communities that don't already exist elsewhere and starting them here. Or finding communities that are becoming toxic on reddit and inviting the users over. No point trying to compete with already thriving subreddits.