How are people growing LN adoption anyway? It does not seem to be the subject of late in the wider crypto community (DeFi, NTFs, and other trending stuff).
All those other stuff you mentioned are a passing fancy. As long as the pumps remain they stay alive which won't be long before they join all the previous passing fancies that are dead today.
Anyways LN adoption is growing as it is evident from the LN stats (number of nodes, channels and the capacity). Lets see how they've changed compared to ~4 months ago that I posted the stats:
Number of LN nodes: 21,833
Number of Channels: 51,277
Network Capacity: 1,601.35 BTC = $54,385,766.81
Average Node Capacity: 0.131 BTC = $4,450.27
Average Channel Capacity: 0.031 BTC = $1,059.26
Number of LN nodes: 29,475
+35%Number of Channels: 79,306
+54%Network Capacity: 3,188.05
BTC = $188,347,616.09
+99%Average Node Capacity: 0.181
BTC = $10,665.91
+38%Average Channel Capacity: 0.040
BTC = $2,372.79
+29%From
https://1ml.com/statistics