There is still not enough people for niche topics.

It is the eternal struggle as more users come niche communities will improve or even exist, but general communities will get worse.

You can always make your own instance and moderate your own comments.

Be aware that no one is forced to keep federated with your instance.

Why rely on google which is going down on reliability so quickly.

What we need is a GOOD lemmy based search engine. Which I think is entirely possible with current lemmy implementation.

Instance picking can be overwhelming. Making people just not even try it.

I do think a big challenge for the fediverse is how to ease that. And make it like e-mail where @whocares is not that important and it’s easy to actually have a custom domain/instance.

And, of course, to achieve this instance admins should be really be responsible with defederations and bans. And only use it as last resort, probably only because of legal reasons. Not because “I don’t like that instance admins main political thesis”. Probably that kind of blocks are better to be left to the user.

Let our motto be:

Anus together strong.

Yes. The act of voting a comment up or down shouldn’t be much different to hitting reply to that comment.

Upvote/downvote systems do exist to overcome those “+1” “-1” posts on old forums. You are not voting for the legislative elections. You are just interacting with another person comment/post in a way that does not require writing. If post comments, are not anonymous, upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t be anonymous as well.

It’s true that peer tube is the ugly duck of the fediverse right now. But I don’t think is about monetization.

On its core it’s true that is the most complex project as videos are resource heavy, and producing videos is time consuming.

I don’t think people does not make videos because lack of monetization but because lack of users. And there are little users because there are little content.

IMHO the UI and UX should be the smoothest of all fediverse because it need to put it as easy as it can to everyone to attract as many users or creators as possible.

Because, let’s be true, monetization (even you can already monetize if you want) is useless is there’s nobody watching anyway.