As a lurker who doesn’t post much:

Improve the quality of the platform. Fix the moderation issues. Find a solution to communities being fragmented across multiple servers. Keep improving reliability. And so on.

Looking at the Patreon and LiberaPay linked on the join-lemmy page it’s >$600 a week. Still not a lot.

Yes. There are innumerable topics and interests that don’t have a robust presence on Lemmy yet because the platform is just too small and niche. Lemmy is great for tech and tech-adjacent stuff but I still wander back to Reddit from time to time for sports, for instance.

Honestly the biggest long term threat to Lemmy is its technology not being able to keep up with its own success. Issues like bad moderation tools, spam, and fractured communities need to be addressed within the software platform itself.

You can fix this with StartAllBack:

https://www.startallback.com/

There are mountains of software and hardware that aren’t compatible with Linux.

And when it’s mission critical or work related stuff you can’t afford to mess around with translation layers or virtualization.

The bloatware sucks but it takes <30 minutes after install to remove / disable all of it.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I have not experienced Windows 10 or 11 getting slower with time at all.

Block out the sun, Mr. Burns style.