This side of the fedi is dying for the exact same reason bluesky has no engagement.

You can only write nigger and Jews so many times until it becomes stale

there is a reason I have a reddit account and despite it being populated with mostly communist NPC's you can find a subreddit about just about anything.

Here if I wanna talk about some hobbies I might get a like if I go to a subreddit about said hobby I can get a lot more digital dopamine for my troubles