There are definitely more active hobby subs than that. Yes, you might only see a dozen of names actively posting/commenting in that community, but it is an active community.

In mosta cases, the subs DO exist but there is lottle activity in them. The situation would probably be a lot better if some of the lurkers on here would post more regularly to their special-interest niche subs.

There is lots of stuff on lemmy outside of Trump/Musk and furries (tbh I think either I blocked the furries or somehow have not come across it for months now)

The sentence structure suggests that in OPs sentence the monkey is the subject and part of the sentence is missing.

Like for example,

“The monkey – I’m wondering if it can see my ears? – is eating a banana.”