Man, i wish i have half your positivity in my life hahaha

Regarding of direction, i agree that what we need is to not reach content parity with r/my. So far what we have here in a week time, it's all duplication of the reddit site, with the exception of the mandarin sub, courtesy of vin, but since we only have like a handful of people active here, i don't think we can do much at this point, at least in my limited knowledge of running a community.

So far i feels what we can do here is to be patient a little bit, and let people warm up to these fediverse thing, let the concept cook a bit more in the oven and the politic ease off a bit. To me it's roughly the same thing as reddit but to them it's a much complicated way to reddit, a daunting way to entertainment, to say the least. Accessibility is also one big problem right now. Been talking with friend group and most feels like the web ui isn't intuitive enough compared to the reddit official app, which say quite a lot. We could pull a thousand people but lemmy will push 999 back to reddit, none of which will be our fault. The third party app race is only begun not too long ago, and since we have very small active user count, might as well wait along.

As for the lurker, i feels like it best not to call out for them, they will join the conversation when they feels comfortable to.

But let say in the near future we have a bit more active user per day, then perhaps we can run stuff like ITAP contest, or maybe meetup(or just move reddit meetup hosting to here? That wouldn't be fair i think). Inktober is near as well, we could run it here in c/pics. Was thinking of secret santa as well, but that's a bit far off into the future.

I think the main difference of this place is, you can create any community you want, post something, and everyone in this place will see it. Back in reddit you have to run around promoting your niche sub, so it's quite different here. Whether people will find this as a pulling force it still remain to be seen.

Ohh and we need a food community for foodie lol.

Okay that's all i have in my empty mind lol