Doesn't seem that obvious, some people in the comments here point out that they prefer to have a dedicated community for their niche topic rather than posting on a generic community
Reddit is still crap, so hopefully people are still looking for alternatives
You seem overtly negative over the whole platform.
People are trying to keep communities active, as shown on !fedigrow@lemm.ee and !newcommunities@lemmy.world
The point is, Lemmy, Reddit, and other related platform are overwhelmingly American.
Ironic as no large instance is managed by US citizens
For instance, if there’s a niche game I want to talk about, it’s currently a roll of the dice whether or not there’s a Lemmy community for it, and then if it does exist already then it’s pretty much guaranteed to see 2, maybe 3 posts per week, tops.
Why not create a thread on a genre community like !jrpg@lemmy.zip or !fgc@lemmy.world ?
As a side note, !til@lemmy.world seems to be the active one, maybe you could lock down the one mentioned in this post?
Let me introduce you the Piefed topics: https://piefed.social/topic/gaming That's an improvement from the reader perspective
Cross-posts themselves are only displayed once on the Web UI as long as they use the same URLs.
Context
The main arguments for people to defederate are
LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true
Japanese RPGS: !jrpg@lemmy.zip