Diversification of content certainly is a good thing, which we should work on. But remember, politics brings with it the r/conservative and /pol/ type of people, and so it becomes a risky affair.

As for wholesome life stuff, personal development, hobbies and cat memes, yes that would be amazing.

On @roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 's COVID comment, there was recently a user samuraikid who contributed lot of posting in privacy sections, but posted pointless copypasta conspiratorial garbage, so those are risky things too. And there is hardly any useful information hidden from us, considering how much it is in news and in daily hour long calls people do these days to avoid IRL anti social depression.

On reddit, some people got tired of r/worldnews and created r/animetiddies, branching away from the shitty racist echo chamber that worldnews is.

Lemmy does not need to be merely an alternative, but something that stands on its own and for a set of values, that no reddit alternative has stood for. This is also a reason why I support solely Lemmy out of all these, due to the admins here being on a very similar wavelength with me, on the lines of noticing and wanting to change the forum internet landscape filled with toxicity. I am not sure even admins fully realise the depth of "the good for the internet society" they are trying to achieve here.