If you didn't love the first one, I doubt you'll like the others. I haven't read all of them yet, but everyone I know who has read them all always started by enjoying the world of the first one first.
Judging by all the threads I've seen recently about the decreasing active user base of Lemmy, there are lots of people who want more, too. I don't think any project is going to make Lemmy as big as Twitter or Reddit immediately, so that seems like an unfounded fear. There's a vast mid area between current Lemmy and peak Twitter, so it doesn't hurt to at least raise the number of normies here so we can get threads about things other than tech and news. I want to see biologists giving their opinion on a discovered animal, or people who worked on a random movie chiming in with fun facts, the earthquake guy, or the astronomy person, etc.
That's still useful. I found myself lurking a ton of subreddits recently looking for buildapcsales or laptopdeals. Then once I bought them I started lurking threads for people who had similar problems as me setting it up. I still find myself adding Reddit to the front of my Google searches when I want responses or reviews from real people about stuff. I even had to reinstall the Reddit app at some point to look at something, which was annoying, but I wanted the info. I wish I could do that with Lemmy instead.
Even if people aren't helping op with their issue specifically (and it sounds like the fediverser person is working on fixing that), answering these questions is still helping everyone else who reads the question on this FOSS end of the internet.
Can you find that thread? It sounds hilarious. I've tried to do some Google searching myself and I've fallen into a rabbit hole if old Disco Elysium reddit threads that have made me want to replay it, but I haven't found that exact one.
Ya ever since everyone defederated from exploding heads there's definitely less of them. Maybe one day they'll create another instance. I hope they do, maybe a less transphobic conservative instance, just for the variety of people.
The same thing happens on Reddit, though. I think that's kind of just the internet from now on. /r/worldnews is literally just a pro-Israel, anti-Palestine echo chamber so it's nice to see another perspective on here. (I only browse Reddit at work not logged in for the record.) Over here, the hive mind on that seems to change thread to thread.
Not to mention services like Netflix cracking down on account sharing. I will keep it if I can share it with my parents and they can buy a streaming service and share it with me. But if it's just for me, it's not worth spending the money on. I'd rather just pirate the one or two shows I want to watch on Netflix, or sign up for a month, watch something that looks interesting then unsubscribe.
It's hilarious because it's happening to both sides, like the extreme Republicans saying they won't vote for their representative because they didn't vote for Jim Jordan or Pence because he didn't agree to coup an election for Trump. The purity tests are so intense and instaneous nowadays.
Tbh it probably is. I don't use Reddit much anymore for discussion or news or memes, but when I need the answer to a problem or an opinion on a product or service from actual people instead of an overly long review listicle, Reddit search results are still very useful.
But Wonder Woman isn't MCU...