I agree. I think people who support the fedipact greatly underestimate the network effect. To be honest, I think this place is never going to get big–it has the same issues that Linux desktop has. It’ll only ever be used by a small niche group. I still have some hope but it’s quickly draining.
We are absolutely not over forums especially for niche communities. They’re the best source of information on many topics
If the instances are federated with each other you don’t need to do that. You can access other instance’s content even while logged into your own.
there are a lot more than 8800 subreddits though, where is this number from?
Correct. I don’t care because I already use Facebook messenger and Instagram which do exactly the same things. However if there’s another good option of interacting with threads users without using the app that would be nice