Please don’t ever feel discouraged by contributing content to the network, if you think the contribution is positive.
There are other people there. Just check the number of subscribers to get an idea of at least how many people could be reached by your post.
Your comment there can act as a catalyst for other Lemmy users to join in and participate.
Having content on Lemmy that is not available on Reddit creates a positive asymmetry in our favor, and it creates an incentive for people on Reddit to migrate here.
reddit has a mode, which is the default, that’s between Lemmy’s “truly, everything all” and “subscribed”. (…) I hope Lemmy eventually gains something similar.
I agree, and it doesn’t even need to be on Lemmy backend. I firmly believe that everything related to content filtering and even algorithmic choices should be part of the client, not the server.
We can have an (mobile/web) app that takes all of the firehose and does the filtering in the client.