I don't know that empty communities matter that much. If something's a niche interest, having a community at all seems more likely to encourage discussion. And asking people to start shouting into the void is a moderate-to-large ask. My local subreddit has 22K members, and took since 2011 to do that. It may be a little while before anyone else comes along, let alone comes along with something to talk about.
Also, while I have you here, there is no good reason to turn off ctrl-clicking opening a new tab.
This is definitely a problem that's going to get worse, fast. Federated communities+feed that draws from a pile of them without particular reference+larger userbase...
Fuck the quality, who thinks a headphone string is a bug not a feature?
You know what's nice? Having all the bits of your headphones attached to each other. And not relying on a Bluetooth connection.
There is a genetic component to it. A huge chunk of people just...don't taste what you're tasting.
At a guess: holdover in style from newspapers, where you needed the space.
Personally, I'm here for the interface. I tried getting into Lemmy. It was unnecessarily arcane, and unnecessarily arcane things usually don't prosper in these scenarios.