You won't hear it from the users here obviously

Are you not a user here? Are you a figment of my imagination?

This place may be the right fit for some, but a lot of people are here because they don't fit in elsewhere.

Ah, okay, so is that why you're here? Nobody likes or wants you because you're an asshole, so you thought you'd come and be an asshole over here instead?

Some even claim that it's the way they like it, but niche communities fail while copies of reddit communities are the only ones with engagement.

This community has engagement. Is it a copy of a Reddit community?

Lemmy/PieFed and Mastodon will probably carve out a tiny base of users over the next few years, but it's doubtful that they will ever be mainstream.

Is that the goal of the Fediverse?

I miss when trolls used to put effort into their posts.