Fedigrow

The top reasons people avoid coming here iirc seemed like (a) "tankies", (b) lack of niche content (Reddit legit has more...), and iirc (c) toxic interactions (which, really, I personally think Reddit is far worse in this regard? probably the lowest end is the same across both Lemmy and Reddit, but the niche subs there are more chill, mostly, compared to like r/all; also if a right-wing person were to come here and act like a Redditor, then yeah they legit may feel unwelcomed!:-P).

Defederating with the big 3 would mostly take care of the first issue (though there's always more e.g. whenever a new person downvotes anything from the admin of Midwest.social and gets banned as a result they'll have to discover that whole thing on their own; there's only so much that can be done to create a walled garden effect). There's little that can be done about the second issue - although bringing people in is likely to help with that longer-term. And blocking the political communities including memes masquerading as such is likely to help with the toxicity effect, ofc there's always going to be people that refuse to control themselves and need to be blocked.

I agree, this looks interesting. It would require some effort. 💪