The average person isn’t using it.

Who does?

Journalists.

That’s the level of incompetency that needs to be booted

“excessive promotion”, right.

You’re doing great work.

Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I’m starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there’s no user count.

It’s an annoying experience and I’m not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.

Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I’m trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that’s the word that starts to make people confused.