Could it be because, for many of us, it’s the only uninterrupted free time we get prior to depleting our energy on chores and work?

My creative outbursts usually happen while I’m doing my chores. My showerthoughts are usually doing-the-dishes-thoughts.

I agree and this will be true for any social platform. This could also happen to communities within lemmy.world.

I think the main advantage of lemmy (or activity pub in general) is the fact that it’s protocol is open source which allows people to spin up their own versions of a platform without end users “necessarily” having to change clients (this obviously implementation specific).

The fact that activity pub is federated is a bonus because it makes the whole “moving to a different community” easier but i see the fact that its open source as a much bigger benefit.