Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
I agree completely with what you say. But I also recognise that a lot of people get confused by all this "techno-babble". To be honest, I am (admittedly an old) programmer, and I was hesitant and confused at first. I think the average user shouldn't be concerned with instances. Why do I need to see <user>@<instance> and <community>@<instance>. Just drop the "@instance" (put it in a tooltip at least) and just make community-names unique across all instances (you could still have the same communityname in different instances, but give them a fediverse-alias which is unique)
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