Totally. Microblogging (twitter alternatives) have a much harder task because they depend on the right users. Especially famous/influential people. Post aggregators (Reddit alternatives) don’t have that constraint.

or just be a weirdo and reply to Lemmy comments from your Mastodon account like me. Then you don't need people on Mastodon since they're already on Lemmy.

Agreed. It took me a few tries to get into Mastodon. What helped me was discovering that I could follow hashtags of topics that interest me. That opened the door to interesting people to follow.

Just follow hashtags, it's by far the easiest way to find people. You can also just use the explore tab.

Yeah I’ve been trying to fill out my Mastodon by doing tons of research and guides on who to follow, which kinda sucks anyways, but my feed is still empty except for a handful of accounts. Wired is active, so I’m basically just looking at a link aggregate of Wired articles. Might as well just go to wired.com

Yep... I wasn't ever much into Twitter, I have no "Influencers" or whatever I follow that I could then follow on Mastodon... I found it really hard to find any content that was interesting to me.

Lemmy on the other hand, I find it really easy to find Communities I am interested in

Mmm this isn't entirely right. People are encouraged to follow hashtags to find people. It actually works very well.