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Because there is an actual user base for niche interests. Lemmy is great but doesn't have nearly enough users to support communities for a lot of topics.
In fact you don't even have to get too niche to find that a topic is non-existent on lemmy. Sports for example.
Especially hyper local communities.
I had to go back to get Pokémon Fire Ash working on my R36 emulator. That was literally the only place I could find any information and I still had to do a bunch of debugging after getting the starting point. Then I interacted helping another set of people stuck at the same spot. Only found it through startpage, not Reddits search
Lemmy is great and that's the only place I'm posting.
But yeah, if I'm looking for a past conversation on a niche topic, I'll probably find something to read on reddit.