Umm, yes. It's such a low entry level. Once you signed up for the memes and the cute cats like millions of others you might as well look for some niche topics and find that there are thousands of others like you. That's only possible if you have many many millions of people in the pool.
If you're really serious about your interest of course you'll branch off to other platforms. But even then your reddit community probably pointed you there.
Yeah, well maybe today it's parenting, tomorrow it's about struggles during meditation, next day it's about a certain video game, then astronomy etc. And then the cycle repeats. There are thousands of topics where you can find huge communities on reddit and virtually none on lemmy. I haven't been on reddit since July but I still miss it. I'm patient and hope that in a few years lemmy has grown enough to sustain niche topics.
Some people use it for more than just entertainment and killing time. Like getting advice on certain topics like parenting or relationships. How to deal with a partner with certain conditions etc. You can't find that on lemmy.
I think Zelda does this pretty good already.
Exactly. That's what I do with my son. I buy the hardware and most of the games, he has time to enjoy it. Sometimes even together.