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!newcommunities@lemmy.world and some others are also a good places to promote your communities.
Those sub numbers don't include federated subscribers, from what I've read. And a lot of people seem to just browse All all the time and block communities they don't want to see. Still doesn't match any numbers in the millions, but things might be a bit more impactful than you think.
Yes, its hard to understand. On the other hand our results on cloudflare look way too good to be true. They say the fediverse site had 180K unique visitors in its first month and almost 3 million of what it calls "total requests".
It's hard to figure out what this means in terms of how many people on the fediverse are seeing the content, both from our site, and where its coming up in federated instances.