The important takeaway here is that it took a long time before it was actually good. They had to try a bunch of different sorting algorithms before they found one that really worked and let you see your small subs just as much as your big ones.
It might take a while here too unfortunately.
About 85% of my reddit browsing had been on pretty niche subs, so I’m still using reddit to engage in those communities (of those that haven’t shut down). I’m trying to contribute to the equivalents here too, but the engagement is still on reddit for now.
The other 15% was just the occasional trip to /r/all to see if there was anything interesting going on there, to which the answer was usually… no. That’s pretty much been replaced by here now.
See also the Christmas carol “Joy to the world, the Lord is come.”