The area where Reddit shines is the big communities for non political topics. Here there isn't an active community, let alone a large one, for any topic that isn't politics, tech, or memes. There's nothing here that appeals to average people like sports, gaming, science, cooking, gardening, etc. I thought this would change, at least a little, over the course of a year, but that didn't really happen. As toxic and ad infested as Reddit is, I don't see Lemmy becoming a mainstream alternative to it.