Not knocking you, but that’s a lot of work for little to no reward. Once it starts feeling like work, I stop. The point for me, is that it’s for fun once it stops being that, or if, then kinda like, why am I doing this for?

The Down Voting

This to me at least, defeats the purpose of doing extensive ‘work’ for posting in communities. Especially when, lemmy has a specific audience: political, techy, anime, videos games, computing, u get the idea.

In my view, fedi/lemmy not having mainstream or normie appeal, it won’t really grow. Factor in heavy handed politcal ideological admining/moderation, you have to ask yourself, who would want to see that all the time and deal with that all the time, when they can just put in a #memes hashtag on X, mewe, Facebook, instagram, or threads, and also post pretty much whatever they want, (Their opinions, food, pets, random life stuff) without having to deal with community rules or some politically motivated ‘mod’.

Why do u think they’re r like almost zero reddit alternatives? Most ppl aren’t interested in forums and the way they operate. Ppl like it easy and simple

Id like for lemmy to grow and be much more diverse in terms of users. Content, opinions, but sadly that just will never happen. And i think it’s meant/intended to be that way. A left leaning space which does not want any outsiders or anything or anyone mainstream.

There’s also too many passive users and too many lurkers. If u want a social media site/app to succeed, u need The content creators and active users. Those are the users who are going to bring more ppl.

But lemmy is not that.

Most users are far too politically extreme, only lurk, remove what they don’t agree with or like, ban ppl left and right (Dissinsentivizing activity) and down vote pretty much any and everything that isn’t the core content. (Anime, left wing politics, computing and tech)