This is just my basic perspective as a daily user since June 9th.
I was able to use just my subscribed communities feed up until a couple of weeks ago. I subscribed to a lot in the first 2 weeks of this thing exploding. Those initial communities are very engaging, but several have slowed down or are dead. I expected that. I’ve been using the “All” feed to try to engage with people and find new stuff. I’ve used it a lot, but there is a lack of engagement. I use the “new” sort priority to try to find active participants, but it seems lacking as viewed from .world. I have other instance made accounts, but I have not seen any differences. Anyone have suggestions about finding better engagement with positive people?
Some communities are more active than others. Some topics evoke more responses. Niche topics are more likely to not getting any response. The last time I heard, Lemmy has maybe half a million users, compared to Reddit 's billions.