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I find this perspective fascinating. It took me ten minutes to find two dozen Lemmy communities of interest, about 2/3 of which were on other servers than my home server. On Mastodon, it similarly took me ten minutes to follow a bunch of hashtags that sounded interesting, and it's trivial to follow new people from those hashtags too.
I get that "it works on my machine" is never a very good excuse for dismissing someone else's perspective, but I struggle to see what's so much harder about the Fediverse vs Twitter or Reddit. I guess there's the thing with Lemmy/Kbin about opening posts from your own instance so you can properly interact with them, which is weird, sure, but there are also like half a dozen solutions for it already, and they're only going to keep getting better with time.
I feel like the Fediverse got a reputation for being difficult because somebody freaked out about picking a home server once, and now that reputation has become a self-justifying argument that "Fediverse is too hard" that gets parroted by people who haven't even looked at it yet.
I find this perspective fascinating. It took me ten minutes to find two dozen Lemmy communities of interest, about 2/3 of which were on other servers than my home server.
See I'm having a much different experience than you. I can't seem to find any communities, and the ones I do have absolutely nothing going on with them. I'm looking for is geocaching and camping, school bus conversions, and a couple of cities. That in a s*** ton of politics made up my Reddit.
And I understand those are all small niche groups, so I have to give it time. Meanwhile my front page is full of all those weird boring Reddit feeds that I didn't associate with on Reddit.
I joined lemme.ee just because it was there, and there aren't a lot of communities on there, so every time I try to search for some, they show up from lemmy.world. which it turns out, keeps going down, because they roll back the upgrades.
How am I being one of those guys who ends up finding communities, commenting so they end up showing up on the lemme.ee feed, but it's not happening. And I'm still not sure if I'm doing something wrong or there's just not much out there yet.