@julian @silverpill @johnonolan
I think a significant part of it boils down to a failure of imagination. People who used to be active Twitter users are familiar with how you build communities on microblogging platforms and how to create clusters of like-minded people. that never seemed to really have happened here on fedi.
I'm also surprised that building a dev community on Lemmy never really seemed to have gained traction either. At this point theres better options, but still