you canāt bring those people over if they never see posts or content from the Fediverse
It's still possible. Reddit didn't became popular because it federated with Digg.
When Lemmy will become the reference for human provided answers, people will join. How fast it will happen depends on how bad the experience on Reddit becomes.
To be honest I had a moderator ban me for proposing an improvement to the sub.
The modlog is public, but most people don't care. And the instance admin didn't want to get involved as that would be "admin power tripping" (which I understand)