Mastodon has 2M active users and has been steady for quite a while now. Fediverse is growing, maturing. Also Lemmy is trying to compete with Reddit, and Mastodon is trying to compete wuth Twitter. Lemmy and Mastodon are not actually competing with each other.
Some variety in content that is friendly and fun. Not all doom and hating on corporations. I am not advocating for corporations btw.