Thank you for posting here!

Yeah, not the best place indeed

If you look at any profile page, it's the classic Mastodon layout: https://veganism.social/@mascottus

The probably just customized the home page

If you really want something a bit less austere than Mastodon you can have a look at https://iceshrimp.social/

There's a tldw in the OP

Just being able to see interesting job posts in my field and area

But if you would like to contribute to Fediverse project, I would say that the current link aggregator options would have more impact:

• if you know Rust: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
• if you know Java: https://github.com/sublinks
• if you know PHP: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/
• if you know Python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/

Same here. And honestly, compared to whatever the sequels are, the prequels are a masterpiece

A lot of them have been abandoned now.

Indeed, we should definitely consolidate

I mod enough communities to be honest, and people tend to have comments around how the content is interesting. Not the most polarizing community.

We can try like this for a bit, and if needed, I'll step in, but I would rather not

I chose my current instance because they disable downvotes for this reason. At least it's one less vector of negativity

That's interesting, because I can exactly tell you why there are so many movies communities

• !movies@lemmy.world got created but is pretty much unmanaged. People on LW just post there out of habit, or because they support LW
• there was historically a moviesandtv on an instance called lemmy.film. It was getting some traction, but then the instance disappeared
• to keep another instance out of LW, people (including me) got involved into !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. It was going well, but at some point I suggested to have discussion threads for current movies, and to engage more with the community. The mod found that "backseat moderating" and banned me. The details can be found in the spoilers in the OP here: https://lemmy.world/post/11446250?scrollToComments=true
• I thus took over !movies@lemm.ee, to kind of have that space to discuss movies.

I think we might consider posting to !movies@lemmy.world to promote the two others on Lemm.ee. I actually did that 2 months ago to talk about the Dune discussion thread we had on !movies@lemm.ee: https://lemmy.world/post/12820343?scrollToComments=true

18 upvotes, no comments, and that's it. I guess a few people went there, but I'm not sure.

Completely get what you feel. I had a look at your last posts, at least the good a few comments, that's something.

Sometimes it's even worse, you post then all you get back is negativity. I just posted on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world, there are some comments which I just reported

Indeed.

Ideally, avoid the top three or five. That will naturally lead to a healthier balance.

That's probably good for Mastodon, but for Lemmy there isn't so much choice. My rule of thumb, in order is

• lemm.ee
• sh.itjust.works if you are ok with the name
• discuss.tchncs.de or lemmy.ca depending if you are located in Europe or North America
• lemmy.zip as they are good contenders, but a bit smaller than the others