Sports and sports news. That’s where we need to recruit.
/r/nba has 8 million subscribers. /r/soccer has 5 million.
We can have sport-focused instances, and we can have one community for each team from the major leagues. We can have “legal gray area” instances focused on video and streams for games that are not on TV or online.
Dontt get me wrong, I think the topics and instances you mentioned can be definitely interesting, but they all seem to be a bit of “preaching to the converted”. We need to go after the people who look at Lemmy and think “there is nothing there that I don’t get on Reddit, why should I bother to learn all that fediverse crap?”