I'd really appreciate it if you used paragraphs. Would make reading longer comments like that one a little nicer.

Like you say, redundant activity is extremely difficult, and the second and third posters only show up when a community already seems active. It's a catch 22.

On Lemmy, as it is new, we are still in a phase where people like you and me who are out to post things, are more likely to create new communities instead of finding existing ones where the things they want to post would fit in.

That's kinda why I shifted gears and made actively looking out for posts that might fit in in more places part of the my deal. To get that redundancy and overlap going, so that even if I disappear, others might still be around posting similar stuff, and so that the people posting to their own communities, might start posting to each others communities, too.

For the same reason, I want to see if I can get Mastodon users involved with the threadiverse. There are lots of artists over there, and they are already used to hashtags to make relevant things visible to people looking for it, so I don't think it's a stretch that if only the active users over there knew more about the threadiverse, there could be more interaction.

Hopefully Mastodon's support for groups will eventually bring even better interoperability.