I gall into most of those categories.

That said, I still have a hard time dropping reddit until a network effect happens here or the multi-feddit stuff can start combining same-named subs across the fediverse.

I spent most of my time on Reddit looking at: various sports,cooking, finance (pf, investing, bogleheads), IT (sysadmin, vmware, homelab), gaming (console and PC and specific game subs), and PC hardware subs. (Plus some for sale places).

I wasn't really one to do much OC, but would participate in comment threads fairly often. I think lemmy/fed has potential, but it's going to need to be simpler for the average person to get logged in and just see the content they want with out jumping through a bunch of searches and hoops.

That's exactly why for me. I'm not lazy enough (and I have good transportation) to drive and pick up food if I'm doing takeout instead of getting stuff delivered and paying fees and tips on top .

I think that's a myth as it isn't income it goes into a separate fund to transfer 1:1.

I agree in premise but it doesn't stop people from just having numbered (or whatever) alt accounts to then create as many as they want.