I like this site vastly more than its closest competitor, Reddit. There’s noticeably less of a bot problem here too. You can get downvoted for saying stupid shit but you don’t get silenced or punished for it. The only problem is that this site is so small. The front page is just VetOfTheSeas and everybody else lol. There was a surge of new users back in 2023 because of the stupid API thing but nothing after that.
It doesnt need to be more popular.
IMO, thinking like that is one of the problems of the internet that led to google, amazon and the other tech giants that functionally own access to the internet now outside of small places like this.
If you want to see more content, set up some RSS feeds to news sites and join discords for memes and repost them here.
the problem of instagram is the addictive behavior, the gating of content behind you-need-an-account-to-view-this-content stuff, the neverending adware/spyware, etc.