You may be right about the inactive accounts, and you are definitely correct about the dead imgur content (although I’d put the number more towards 50-60 percent), but I’m afraid those factors aren’t quite enough to make Lemmy attractive. Imgur struck a blow towards the NSFW side of Reddit, but it has recovered.
Another draw Reddit has that I forgot to mention is the prevalence of OC content. That can have it’s own problems, with spam and excessive advertising, but the big upside is if a user finds something they like, with a single click they can go directly to the source to find more of it.
RE: My community Yes, and no. With the type of content it is focused on, I have a slight bias towards illustration, and I’m basically the sole poster so that affects things. But, more than that, I haven’t found any non-illustration content that would fit. With that said, it certainly isn’t meant to be an illustration only community. I’m not attempting to actively remove or suppress non-illustration content.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check it out. Funnily enough, I get a lot of the content I post from Reddit.
Yep. If the communities here could attract some high quality OC posters (especially ones who don’t also post on Reddit) that would lead to some major growth, but that goes back to the same problem of OC producers not coming here because of low view counts…. I think at the end of the day, Lemmy is going to struggle to compete unless Reddit does something crazy and completely bans NSFW content or something.