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One thing late-stage Reddit really had going for it is that, for any niche topic or hobby, you could find a sizeable active community.
I still have to visit that place from time to time, but I’d rather be on Lemmy.
I actively use reddit as Lemmy is small and lacks a bunch of the communities I like, but I'm making it a point to use a bit of Lemmy every day, even if it is to put one comment or one upvote in
I feel that if people are committed to staying active on this platform it will remain at a steady number of people and slowly grow, and as it grows more, it becomes more and more enticing to post as you know they'll be more interaction due to having more users, snowballing so to speak into being a bigger platform.
You realise in your first paragraph you're doing the thing that's the reason for your second paragraph?
No, I don't quite understand what you mean
People need to use Lemmy for Lemmy to be useful.
You're still going to Reddit and keeping it alive instead of actively choosing to vitalise Lemmy.
What do you suggest I do if neither the communities nor the number of users here are sufficient to support the niche things I do on reddit?
And using reddit =/= not participating actively on Lemmy. If you are trying to convince me not to use reddit at all, to take away my vote so to speak and leave them with a -1 user, I feel that's noble in a way, but in the practical sense, at least for now, reddit is way better to find stuff in since it is filled to the brim with users.
People can use both for a while, growing out Lemmy to a comfortable enough place to drop reddit for good, and while im not the most active person ever, if you check my profile, ive done 7 posts and 78 comments here since I've joined (its been 4 days)
If you have any advice on the issues I mentioned I'd be more than happy to listen and try to learn something.
I personally just DDG search for something and will read a reddit thread if it comes up but won't actively go there to look for stuff on Reddit. If I think it's on Lemmy I'll search here too. Otherwise if there's a community I'm missing I could of course create it but I know I'm not very good at that so I just accept the fact that I don't talk about it online until others do.
I differ a bit compared to you there, I don't want to ruin my online experience and entertainment for an uncertain future possibility of the thing i wanna do or talk about will come up on Lemmy, what if I need to wait 5 whole years before it appears here? Or more? I don't wanna be bored for 5 years.
If the alternative starts to appear in Lemmy I'll try to comment/post on it and be active, and if it grows enough I then will probably drop reddit, but before that, I'd rather have my cake and eat it too.