I realized that if I want more people to engage w/ content, I have to be the change I want to see. I interact w/ content more regularly as a result

Yes, a good rule of thumb is to try and submit at least one good post per day. I don’t know how the algorithm works here, but over on the other site, it only feeds one post into the feed of your users if your sub is small.

Maybe you could have a setting where you indicate 2-4 instances you want it to always search. A lot of instances are like mine, just made for one or a few users and aren’t going to host a lot of content.

I had a hard time with this and I could not get lemmy easy deploy to work. I was finally able to install on a Pi 4 with ansible using ubergeek77’s images. It was difficult because of the lack of documentation.