>If that were the case, then I would get to have far more technical conversations than I have now. Just go look at Poast if you want to see.

It is the case. You can maybe make an argument for fedi being a place for people with a CS background OR you want to niggerpost to the exclusion of basically everything else, but that doesn't address the core issue: limited scope of interests. What you're making is half a point if it's true and it's probably not even true.

>Even if it were true, it would be fine with me

It would be fine with you that this side of fedi is only for people with a very short list of interests (it is)? Seriously?

>I understand your problem, and that you'd like to get your tabletop friends off of the shitty services and onto here, but of course they aren't interested in the place based on the technical merits

That's not the problem. Here's the problem: only a certain handful of interests are actually discussed on this side of fedi with any significant volume. And yes, that is an actual problem, one that won't go away by your mere dismissal of it.

>So, fedi, we're all here. I'd rather focus on doing things that are good for the people that are here (which obviously includes me) than to get more people here. I saw what "get more normies here" did to Linux. No, thank you: no good software resulted from that, and it never made normies start using Linux.

Fedi is stagnant. I haven't seen new features for fedi released in years, and efforts to create them are met with technically dubious non-arguments. See the scrobbling PRs. For you to have a point here we'd need to see some actual improvements made for the people here.

In conclusion, fedi is stagnant because it can only attract users with a certain handful of interests, this is a real issue, and dismissing it isn't addressing it.