I use it as an informal way to see if leftist views are gaining or losing in influence
Using lemmy to gauge public sentiment is begging for false positives and incorrect perceptions; normal people do not use this site, lemmy is a highly maladjusted sink for reddit cranks and idiosyncratic Nazis, a bargain bin 4chan without even the numbers necessary to survey the incel population of the internet
To properly gauge leftist influence sites like TikTok are the only reliable userbase that can represent an accurate cross-section of the general population