You can’t expect newcomers to stay on the platform without anything to discuss. This way when new people arrive they will have stuff to be engaged in. We don’t have the numbers to make tons of cool and interesting content, so this is the way to go. Think of it like playing games on Linux with Wine. It gives you access to certain content types you wouldn’t have had access to otherwise. It made switching to Linux possible for some people and over time community became big enough to attract some developers, and playing games without Wine became a possibility. Given enough time same will be the case with Lemmy.