One suggestion I saw a while ago was to use more general communities for things you're interested in and as it grows then the more niche communities can be made.
Ex: post about a specific game you like in gaming up until enough people like it to make a sub for that game. Or post about a song you don't know in asklemmy until enough people do that to make whatsthissong
I totally get wanting the niche communities and, personally, I just lurk reddit completely not voting, posting, or commenting unless as a last resort if I really need to find info that Lemmy isn't able to provide.
It's a slow process and I don't think there'll be another boost of users in Lemmy until reddit does another thing that enshittifies it to annoy people to leave.
One that I had that was continuous until I updated to the current dev beta was stickers being completely unavailable. Another my friend has was on a home screen search with just the letter s would crash it lol.
Ah yeah I remember I had a service that had a delay with sending the 2fa code (can't remember if it was email or sms) but it got to the point where it was basically gambling on if I'd get into the account on that day or not lol. Glad it wasn't as important as mortgage payments though that sucks to hear.
Didn't know about the phone number requirement but I am annoyed that any time I log into my apple account it'll only ping my iOS devices as a 2fa option. Wish I could use generic/standardized 2fa code gen.
If you're using Android it's more than likely just an OS issue. I have had a lot of issues on my phone trying to use passkeys let alone just the password manager.
I will say I kinda rolled my eyes at the end where he said he'd remake digg with ai but the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.
One suggestion I saw a while ago was to use more general communities for things you're interested in and as it grows then the more niche communities can be made. Ex: post about a specific game you like in gaming up until enough people like it to make a sub for that game. Or post about a song you don't know in asklemmy until enough people do that to make whatsthissong
I totally get wanting the niche communities and, personally, I just lurk reddit completely not voting, posting, or commenting unless as a last resort if I really need to find info that Lemmy isn't able to provide.
It's a slow process and I don't think there'll be another boost of users in Lemmy until reddit does another thing that enshittifies it to annoy people to leave.