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I really do hope Lemmy can become sufficiently populous to allow for revitalizing all the niche subreddits and perpetuate+encourage that knowledge dissemination and truth-seeking function that Reddit (the community of communities rather than RedditCo) tends to do stunningly well.
I made one of my favorite niche communities (on my Lemmy.world account), for the XCOM games. And I try to drop memes in a few other super niche communities that I'm interested in every so often.
Growth is slow, but a handful of very active users can contribute more than you'd think.
Just be careful. There's some bad hombres out there spamming bad stuff and I don't want any nice volunteers getting burned online or offline, if you catch my drift.