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More users is not necessarily more better.
... but I do agree there are very few active communities.
The focus should be on making the fediverse the best it can be, rather than focusing on attracting users.
The issue is without some mass, small communities will likely not prosper. I can’t imagine if someone wants to create a community on spoon collecting that it would do well. We may just have to accept that for the next 5yrs the fediverse may just be larger communities with lots of smaller interests lumped in together.
Yes but more users doesn't necessarily make a spoon collecting community more viable.
Am easier pathway is to encourage existing users to visit this type of community.
Additionally, consider carefully whether the fediverse can support a spoon collecting community, or perhaps you should just post about spoon collecting in the general "cutlery collecting" community.
More users provides more diversity - More diversity provides the potential for more niche interests to arise - More active niche communities provides more reasons for existing users to stay - More active users staying on the platform inevitably attracts more new users.
More users also increases the appeal for bots, purveyors of misinformation, trolls, and assholes generally.
And the Fediverse doesn't have all of those already?
These are inescapable in the modern age internet unfortunately, however the decentralisation of the Fediverse should help in alleviating those symptoms of an open platform.
Of course we have them, but the ratio will increase as user numbers rise.
Federation does not protect us from these issues in any way. In fact it's very susceptible to misinformation through federation.
only if lemmy was the only 1 aggrgated site it would be more pervasive. but reddit is still too big right now.