There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it’s open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!
I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.
Personally I like those “local” smaller communities. It’s like living in smaller cities, everyone knows each other, amount of posts and comments is not overwhelming so you can interact with people and be heard. And if you need some very active subs for news and such then there are popular “main” sublemmies for mainstream topics on lemmyverse.net.