I hope Lemmy will become this. Here is my strategy:

1. Create a Lemmy community (for example !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de).
2. Submit something every few days. Not much quality control. Quantity over quality for now.
3. Hope for a community to form.

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.