I’ve lived In rural areas in the U.S. all my life. Internet is always atrocious because the only ones that provide services out those ways know that they have no competition.

Luckily, I’ve had a great company come in and now have fantastic internet after they set up the infrastructure, but I still think about those days I had to use Windstream.

That’s some great context. My analogy was more in terms of the popularity of Digg, which now goes to Reddit.

I’m not sure if you’re asking what it is, but it was the reddit before reddit.

That’s an interesting perspective, but I’m not really asking about Reddit. I’m wondering about how Lemmy can grow on its own

Will Google searches eventually link to lemmy? I don’t really know how this site works, but I would assume that could grow the site more than anything else would.