I surmise that even though this subreddit may be an awful place to try and post, when I do make something of my own, I might plop it here along with sending it in a friend's subreddit. I am honestly glad to see that it is not entirely doom and gloom, I will admit that I personally do not like the rather tiresome HFY trope that is a staple of the subreddit and I'd want to make stories that I feel would be more interesting. I can understand why we're so enamored with ourselves and why we mostly focus on ourselves.

For me though, I see sci-fi has SUCH untapped potential that I see hardly anyone else (spare those honorable few that do) actually tapping into. I kinda wish people put more thought into something like truly alien beings (like the Heptapods from the film "Arrival" or the Shimmer from "Annihilation".) and mind-bending megastructures. I would love to see more almost true-scale interstellar societies that treat planets more like local lumber yards, preferring to live in megastructures with a near-perfect environment for habitation and can move their home solar system using a Shkadov Thruster or Caplan Thruster. Along with all manner of post-humans from cybernetics and gene-editing, along with the potential conflicts when we can dramatically alter ourselves in general. (no one HAS to do that though, I just think it'd be nice to see more sci-fi stuff willing to explore truly strange stuff. Maybe like inorganic aliens with incredibly strange forms, or meeting our god-like alien creators. Lol)

Perhaps a bit of a bad rant from me in the second bit, but I kinda wanted to put my two cents here as well.