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It's taken a while, but I see mostly enough of what I want to see lately. Maybe some more Hack-a-Day style projects / ESP32/Arduino/etc microcontroller projects and such.
I'd also like to see some activity revived in various music communities. Earlier on in Lemmy, those were pretty active with people sharing songs and memories about them. Less so, now. And why people downvote someone's song submission is beyond me, lol, but I digress.
(Edited) I've gotten used to receiving downvotes occasionally and I'm not bothered. Still, it's true and unfortunate that the way downvotes are given out around here can discourage people from sharing their creations or opinions on interesting topics like music, arts and crafts. Especially since those first few votes can feel like a lot to OPs.
my pre-edit response
Excellent points. I did intentionally word the question as "more" instead of less, in hopes of mitigating the number of unproductive arguments.
We are doing very well on the amount of memes, politics and political memes but it is quite a lot, can feel a bit gloomy at times and you know there are some of the "regulars" that post and comment mostly along specific narratives.
Fair enough :) I respect that. I've edited my comment to remove that bit.
I've been throwing some of those onto /c/technology and have received some mixed results.
On one hand, they are usually upvoted and some people are really cool about maker projects.
On the other hand...people can be downright mean and will downvote anything they can't personally buy right now or think perfect. The level of snark and straight anger is interesting. If you say anything positive about such a project, there is often a huge amount of downvotes as if people are trying hard to drown out any positivity. Dunno maybe it's just me.
I'm all about testing new and prototype technology and I was hoping it could have its place there. You can't get more diy than hackaday I feel.
Maybe join [email protected] and/or [email protected] and post there. I just found those communities not very long ago, and they seem to have some cool content.