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My experience is that it's too safe and self-righteous to be truly fun (also, admins are horny about defederation), but I respect the platform and I manage to have some good conversations.
I try to promote it to people, but they don't see anything fun to draw them in. I've had people vaguely complain about the "vibes." I think it's seen primarily as being for nerds.
I think we need events that only happen on lemmy. Maybe AMAs by interesting people or celebs.
I think I know what you mean. Too many hurdles, too much of the tech elitism, too little that's just genuinely fun, useful, or interesting for outsiders. Lemmy has a content/accessibility/attitude problem.