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I didn't see a "call for more action" in that comment.
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com are communities about acting to make the platform grow.
Of course they are, the same way the vast majority of microblog users are still on Twitter compared to Mastodon. That doesn't prevent communities to thrive, as stated above.
We have someone that wants to post more content and who is being told "don't do that. things here are slow. It's more than enough to have only 5 posts a day, more than that and you are spamming" and I am saying "No, it's not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less."
I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it's not about absolute numbers.
Host them on your instance, then.
I just checked the first two pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/
No Twitter thread, no Mastodon thread. The closest links are blog posts from Medium or Substack, or personal blogs.
Hummm, gladly?
I'm running more than 15 instances for communities. I was running alien.top which at one point hosted 600k accounts with more than 2M posts + comments, a lot of them being sent to the topic-specific instances. I'm constantly reminding people that the instances are there, and that I can create communities for anyone that need it.
Cherry-picking data points is not the way to make an argument. That just makes you seem clueless and/or biased.
If you really want to refute my statement, you'll need to take a look at all submissions in the past two years and compare the number of posts to twitter vs the number of posts to any Mastodon instance.