I’ll try to use a scenario to better explain the problem, but I’ll admit that I don’t know the solution.
Scenario: new user searches for a topic because it’s important to them. The only exact match community has 17 subscribers vs many thousands on Reddit. User decides Lemmy isn’t the Reddit killer (or at least not yet) and goes back to Reddit.
I’ll try to use a scenario to better explain the problem, but I’ll admit that I don’t know the solution.
Scenario: new user searches for a topic because it’s important to them. The only exact match community has 17 subscribers vs many thousands on Reddit. User decides Lemmy isn’t the Reddit killer (or at least not yet) and goes back to Reddit.