I never was a big social media guy. Never had a Facebook or anything, except what google forced on me like Google+ and on reddit, I just used it for very specific tasks, when I couldn't find answers anywhere else.
With the current shitstorm on reddit I decided that enough is enough and wanted to give this Fediverse I keep hearing about a try. With a little bit of searching around, I made an account, got the mobile app and things seemed settled. Until I tried finding stuff more targeted than a wall of posts on jerbil.
Granted, I haven't read, let alone tried everything yet, but it seems limited, or most likely, I have no idea what I'm doing. Take for example emulation. One of the subreddits I was in, was about emulation since that's a topic I'm passionate about. Good, went to the link provided to search for communities and got 11 results. As expected for the most part.
What was not expected was most of them being in the double digits of users with the biggest ones showing 3 posts and like..6 comments total.
I know that while the fediverse is not new by any means, there's a large growth now with the shit happening over at reddit and is in by no means as populated or interacted with as the latter. But those numbers seem so small to me that I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
Please help out an illiterate idiot?
PS. Emulation was just an example I was interested with. It's not the point of my post.
Lemmy is still kind of rough around the edges and the mobile apps are still pretty immature. I think things will improve quickly as more people adopt the platform. Anyway you'll have to put up with things being a bit green for a while, but they'll get there.
I can't speak for Jeroba since I mainly use a browser on PC, but the browser interface works well enough for me. Though I'm definitely looking forward to bug fixes and feature additions.
I'm here from Reddit. The big change for me is I'm subscribed to more communities because the population is a lot smaller. That's good and bad, the good is I see a wider range of topics, the bad is I can run out of new topics to view. I can usually get my fill though.
I expect communities will grow quickly here in the near future. You can look for more active ones to subscribe to by checking out lemmyverse.net
The worst part about Jerboa is that up till now, I still have no idea how to search for keywords, I just get communities. It's really hard to discover topics this way.