Jellyfin and Immich jave stayed as mainstays after like 2 dozen projects I’ve tried on. That and a Samba share.

This is just factually untrue with the numbers lemmy by itself has being having. Not to say anything of Mastodon and et al. There wouldn’t be a mass exodus of highly engaged folks from reddit to lemmy if users just didn’t move anymore. Threads got big but then instantly deflated to a much lower number immediately.