Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes.
What you describe is a vocal minority. It's pretty obvious that most of the users wouldn't wind getting the place getting at least twice as active.
Not sure if I mentioned it to you, but you are aware of !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ? I'm going to start daily threads there to promote non-political communities
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
Nobody is reading a 5 lines comment?