Communities generally spawn on whatever general purpose instance, and I'm fine with it because the only other option is usually nothing at all. Maintaining an instance takes hard work and money. Sometimes there is enough will to spawn a specific instance. For example, rimmers have their own mbin instance. That's the exception, though.The only encouraging thing I can say here is Be the change you wish to see. If you want an instance to exist, run it yourself!
We have enough memes and politics and definitely US politics for three lifetimes.Here's a bunch that I enjoyed, or wish for, or just found by browsing the community list:!europe@feddit.org and local country subs in English!historymemes@lemmy.world!sauna@suppo.fi!assholedesign@lemmy.world!balconygardening@slrpnk.net!gameart@sopuli.xyz!pkd@lemmy.world - Included mostly because I had a chuckle from the name, but I'd be interested for real too
Based on personal experience, I'm a firm believer in that best way to learn and get good at something is to just do it and keep doing it.So: download godot or such and try to make stuff. You'll figure it out as you go.
But those only give you speed, not velocity!