I don’t give a shit about a platform. I come from the phbb days when you sought out your communities and eventually landed with a bunch of likeminded people.
I ditched Reddit because I will not support their greedy race to the bottom. I won’t “just check the sub I’m in to occasionally” I’m done with it.
The only content I’m remotely interested in here in the fediverse is news related. And it’s boring as fuck. I didn’t go to Reddit for Reddit or news. I went there for the specific things I’m in to. Real shit, not memes.
I’m not going back there. And I can only yell at a wall here for so long.
I’m not into Lemmy because it’s got all the niche communities I need in my life. I’m into it because the fediverse in general is a FOSS, decentralized, “by the people for the people” alternative to enshittified ads&engagement social media.
We’re in the early stages of this thing. We’re all still playing with the building blocks of what this will hopefully become one day.
I came for the cause as well. Im just having a hard time finding my people.
Memes don’t cut it.
Have you looked through https://browse.feddit.de/ ?
I guess I am at a point where I can find enough interesting stuff that I can accept “If you build it, they will come” for now.
Basically, I’m not expecting the finished product yet, but things look promising. Hopefully the necessary momentum is there.