Much of lemmy outside of memes, piracy, and linux is a bit dead. Take !formula1@lemmy.world It has 8k subscribers and the most recent race has 76 comments. /r/formula1 has 3.4M subscribers (500x) and the most recent race has 10.3k comments (135x). I like the little bit smaller feeling of lemmy, but probably a little too small right now.

As for mastodon, I don't have an account over there, but finding people is hard unless you already know they are there. To start, you have the decision issue of which instance to join, then you have the discovery and de-federation issues present in the fediverse in general. Its super hard to browse twitter without an account now, but from what I can see, bluesky is the next destination and many have abandoned mastodon. I think that's because bluesky fixes both of the main issues with the fediverse. There is only one of it, and everyone is on the same one. Unfortunately its closed to guests and will likely suffer the same fate as all VC supported social media.

I don't even know if letting people know about lemmy would help much. There are already so many other places people are present, are the interested in yet another?

A little bit of the activity from me is also due to the emptiness here. I wanted more so I decided to be the change I want to see. Unfortunately for everyone else here, my favorites are niche of niche.

I'm certainly not part of any community, except I guess yiffit, but I've also never really given it a shot.

I don't know that I have much to say, or even add to the conversation most times. I just type whatever pops into my head (within reason) and nobody has complained yet.