I know a lot of lurkers like me out there are browsing, but there’s quite a bit of engagement capitol on the federated instances. If you find an interesting topic and the right community, you get a lot of feedback. There’s not much hate being thrown out there either.
Dont I know it. I was being facetious with the comment because I know what these places are like having moved from specific niche forums, watching reddit expand (avoiding Facebook), and then here. I’m also an early adopter to Tildes but decided to not even attempt in there because of the “tech bro (tech person)” problems you’ve illustrated.
Mander and Slrpnk are good instances and busy enough.
I do find it funny seeing these memes about creating content from someone with 6 posts, there’s been a few of them now.
Slrpnk tends to be pretty active, i always enjoy browsing my local feed :)
If I was any where else, it would be there. Maybe one day, won’t rule it out.
Using local on aussie.zone gets me Australian news so I dont need to subscribe to Aus communities which is a bonus. My subscribed just stays my interests so Local and Home are critical to my browsing.
That is really nice, im glad i saw your commect tho – the aussie instance seems like a great place & i subbed to a few communities there :) slowly but surely the niche subs will het active lol