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I think the anonymity and scattered-ness of Lemmy makes this a hard sell.
A lot of the federated social media has a lot of real name people on it. They post photos and develop common interests with particular other people they start to talk with regularly. I think the nature of the Reddit-like social media tends to discourage that. There are other advantages to things being focused on text only and casting a massive net across thousands of random accounts organized by topic groupings, but I think it's always going to be tough for people to be casual when there are thousands of faceless strangers watching over any interaction they're having, and several of them might weigh in at any moment with a consequence-free interaction.
I've noticed that the social aspects and implications of Discord vs. Reddit-like platforms vs. Facebook-like platforms are very very different and tend to lend themelves to matching styles of social interaction. I don't know how this can translate usefully into an answer to your question, it's just something I have noticed.
I think I see where you're coming from on this, and to clarify I'm not thinking so much of people developing common interests and relating individually as you describe. Instead I'm thinking in terms of people posting about an interest in a broader community, like Schizo describes with a hypothetical Hobbies community, to gauge interest and carry on for awhile until it's pretty clear they'd benefit from creating their own community.
A classic example is like the TV or Games communities that eventually draw enough people interested in the same specific shows/games that they then create sub-communities dedicated to those specific shows/games.