The problem for me is simply lack of users to get a good discussion going on anything that isn’t tech or socialism.
I enjoyed it at the start when lots of people were trying it out as an alternative to reddit, but every day I get closer to sacking it off completely because there just isn’t the content or users to support the discussions I’d like to have to kill 20min here or there.
I guess my problem is that “make your own” sounds great in principle but when every group makes their own they each become echo chambers for that group. I also haven’t bothered fully understanding the fediverse and what I can do with it so that’s on me obviously.
I just want an easy to use discussion forum for a range of topics and opinions. And unfortunately it just doesn’t seem like this is it.