I guess I didn’t exactly mean it as elitist gatekeeping, I see it more like people are being abandoned by major websites and this is the result.

Welcome to the old Internet. Decentralization is good in a way, people will have to try harder instead of having everything spoon fed to them by Google.

The two biggest ones I know of are startrek.website for trekkies and blahaj for all things trans/lgbtq. But even those don’t see to have much activity. We need better advertisement to smaller communities somehow.

I felt like it was working briefly on my instance and now it’s not again…

Just checked the issues and I don’t see anything about context for the latest version. I think the devs are unaware.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

There’s a script for instance operators to run to fix that but I don’t have the link on me

I had similar issues, I joined a small Mastodon instance and for some reason couldn’t see comments or amounts of boosts. I guess it was just misconfigured