Unfortunately I’m not yet a DN so I’ve little to contribute right now but I loved lurking on Reddit and really don’t want to go there anymore. I’d love to see this place become a success.
I just wanted to put the thought out there given the lack of movement on here (despite your best efforts). My concern with lemmy.ml is its lack of reliability right now for federating to other servers. Subscription requests stuck at pending and posts and comments not making it to other servers so things look dead when they may not be (seen this when viewing lemmy.ml communities that have had more traction from other instance accounts). That being said lemmy.ml has a large (too large maybe) local user base that can look at the original local copy so maybe that offsets the federation issues.
I don’t know. I just wanted to put it out there that lemmy.ml has been unreliable and I ended up making accounts on other instances to be able to reliably see what was going on their communities and the same for here. wayfarershaven.eu is a reliable instance focused on “Creating a space for inspiration, creativity, handwork, reading, travel, etc.” which has onebag and solotravel communities on it. The instance admin was interested in perhaps hosting a DN community but I told them there one was already running here. Maybe that would offer a more reliable home than lemmy.ml which is overloaded and really originally focused on tech like privacy and FOSS.
What a nice surprise. Loading this community on my home instance shows just 2 subscribers! I was wondering why no one was subscribing!