Ex redditors expect Lemmy to work the same way as their former social media: subreddits with narrow focus being great while large, generic subs are to be avoided. That’s now how Lemmy operates though - we barely have any topic-focused communities and must rely on more generic places instead.

Redditors who were primarily on niche subreddits already have a good chance to enjoy Lemmy as the activity between such subreddits and more generic Lemmy communities are comparable. But since the expectation is that big generic communities are bad, such visitors will judge by our niche communities - and seeing that most of them are very inactive and some are completely dead, they won’t be impressed.