Too much focus on Reddit drama threads and not enough on actual content (I am guilty of this too). I think as the drama passes it will liven up in the popular topics/magazines. Reddit needs to stop pulling the trigger on their foot gun first.

The vast majority of users on an aggregation site like this are just lurkers. Like, the vast, vast majority. Scroll, read, updoot, move on.

tbf, there are more active communities that people might be going to on other instances

Well post something then lol. The individual communities on each instance may seem small but the posts should still be visible on all the federated sites in the verse.