Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it’d be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I’d doubt they’d form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it’d foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of “normal people”, that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they’re interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

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    In my case it’d be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion,

    These will never thrive or it will take a long time to thrive. The fediverse has a learning curve and most people are not willing to learn something new for the sake of freedom. They’re just fine using reddit or any other link agregator. And that’s fine too.

    Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

    To be completely honest, no. Unless their communities get completely shut down on corporate social media, which is very unlikely, no, I don’t think so.

    There is a place and a space for every kind of activity and if people are not willing to budge and adopt something new, plus are fine with whatever services the corporate social networks provide, there really is no reason to change anything (if it works, leave it alone).