I felt this in my bones

Producing Broadway shows. The whole process of workshopping a theatrical production just seems like such an interesting - and communal - art form.

As a lurker who doesn’t post much:

Improve the quality of the platform. Fix the moderation issues. Find a solution to communities being fragmented across multiple servers. Keep improving reliability. And so on.

Looking at the Patreon and LiberaPay linked on the join-lemmy page it’s >$600 a week. Still not a lot.

Yes. There are innumerable topics and interests that don’t have a robust presence on Lemmy yet because the platform is just too small and niche. Lemmy is great for tech and tech-adjacent stuff but I still wander back to Reddit from time to time for sports, for instance.

Honestly the biggest long term threat to Lemmy is its technology not being able to keep up with its own success. Issues like bad moderation tools, spam, and fractured communities need to be addressed within the software platform itself.

Block out the sun, Mr. Burns style.