Sometimes I will switch my feed on newest first so I can find more content before it gets buried amongst the popular threads. Regarding communities, I honestly feel Lemmygrad has a great variety communities, which is necessary to be able to post to relevant communities. I often have issues making posts in the right hexbear community because my topic doesn’t really fit into the small list of communities. For example, the Funny community here is great because it covers a wide range of humorous content, but hexbear…memes, videos (though that community is better for sharing more interesting content or showing videos of one’s interest), maybe news if news related, I don’t even know what chapotraphouse is for and it gets treated like a niche community, not sure if chat is really equivalent to our comradeship/freechat community which helps covering any other niche posts.

The only issue with many communities in small instances is that the moderators for those communities often are not active anymore, but the community is still useful. I would like to create a community, but I really don’t have the time or capacity to handle moderation. That’s why I think a lemmy like social media where tags are used and a more centralized but larger group of moderators could encourage more equally distributed activity across different niche content.