Now that is a substantial amount of users on here now (from a particular source that looks awfully like Lemmy but is very corporate ewww). What are some tips and tricks for using lemmy or the fediverse in general to help those new users to get accustomed to this platform?
Yep, good advice, with suggested alteration to the end.
Free your mind from the expectation of consolidation into a single community per topic. Decentralization is a feature of Lemmy. Posts on whatever communities you’ve subscribed will show in your “subscribed” feed regardless, it doesn’t matter if it’s one community or ten so long as it’s the content that interests you. When one community goes down, the other nine will still be there.
I feel like there needs to be a balance. Sometimes two communities about the same topic have genuinely different flavors and make sense to keep separate. But other times it’s just a lot easier and more productive to take people from ten little pools having the same conversation to one big one.