I’m not saying we need to blow up and get inundated with the masses, but sometimes it takes an event to kick things up a notch or two. Ideally a positive event, but something noteworthy to get people’s attention.
I don’t visit that site which shall not be named anymore, but I never visited it for memes or politics etc or because I had any particular affinity for the platform. I went there for the niche forums it had and if they exist here, they are empty.
It would probably have helped if all the news orgs shitting on reddit during the peak of the shitstorm had mentioned so much as a single alternative platform. But basically all of them were written as if reddit was all there was and the users were angry, but not even close to abandoning it.
Well, here’s to the future. May the fediverse get more coverage, because it sure doesn’t have an advertising budget. And that’s a good thing.
The average person doesn’t seek shit out. They wait until it’s fed to them and then may occasionally decide to participate out of fomo.
What really surprised me is that some of the communities I enjoyed pretty much universally carried on as if nothing happened. Maybe I’m weird, but I can’t support the bullshit they pulled. Thankful for the alternative and hope to see it flourish.
I had that problem when I kept it at “Top 6 hours”. I realize some of the subs were not populating with anything. I’ve since changed it to Hot, and it looks like it’s good.
Things are looking great on my feed, seeing a ton of interesting stuff. Browsing masto a bit as well.
I browse all, mostly. Many of the niche communities have been pretty empty, but many others have been about as active as some smaller subreddits I used to follow.
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