Fair enough. I was just going off what I've seen threadiversians say.

and TIL the term threadiverse for reddit-like fedi.

There are some incredibly niche communities on there but they almost never cross over to Mastodon, et al.

I don't know where you're getting the idea that I think the fediverse is a failure. Lemmy and piefed users agree that there isn't enough niche content, and I was just pointing out that Mastodonians could help out by occasionally cross-posting to those platforms.

But yes, discovery is an issue. Mastodon users will have to browser-navigate lemmy and piefed to find communities to post to.

It would also be pretty useful if us, the people outside the so-called threadiverse could tag multiple communities/magazines in the same post, and it would be cross-posted to all of them (it only seems to be picking the first one now afaik. Now if I want to post an interesting article I have to submit a separate post for every single community - this means that I'll be spamming my actual followers over and over with the same article for example).

There are hundreds if not thousands of niche communities that don't cross over to microblogs.

You can't look at a single event or collection of events and conclude that the entire shebang is a failure.

It would be like me pointing out HOA, open reg servers, and alt text arguments and concluding that mastodon is a failure.