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.

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.

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

Why did you get so many downvotes