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If you're happy with your instance, there's arguably no need to switch. Just follow people anywhere on Fedi and interact with them. Before you know it you'll have a community.
I ran my own Mastodon instance for a while, and it didn't matter I was on a server with only one user (me). It's all about following, followers and interacting. The instance itself fades away quickly.
This is key. Also try to figure out which relevant hashtags are being used, and follow and use them.
Finding relevant groups can also be an idea. Tag and follow for example
@scifi@a.gup.pe, or even consider if it's worth sharing your post on Lemmy (by tagging for example@sciencefiction@lemmy.world).Anything can be a group in a.gup.pe, by changing what's been the @s. When you search for a group in Mastodon you'll see how many followers it has. A more integrated group functionality will probably be implemented in Mastodon in the future, but for now that's what we've got. :)
You make a good point about groups. I haven't really tried those out yet.