harder to keep niche communities active
Yeah, this is a core problem. I am trying to understand the main things that need to be built for niche communities/moderators/leaders to thrive.
isn’t feeding a megacorporate machine who sees it’s users as nothing more than cattle to consume their advertisements
Content consumption being re-prioritized is what I view as the main mantra of the federation movement.
This may seem out of the blue. But am kinda curious, having this bookmarked this for a while, if you ended up sticking around on Lemmy or if not, what about this experience may have changed your mind from this initial post.
Kinda curious about what you may think about this. https://github.com/neatia/loom
Personally I was fascinated by their simplistic design approach UX wise
