Those were the glory days, I always collected so regularly, on the off chance that Bitcoin would one day be worth a lot, and here we are at over 100k a coin.
Many who have been in the crypto industry for a long time started with faucets. That's why freebitcoin had such a large audience. At that time, users really had the opportunity to collect quite a lot of sats (0.2, 0.5, or even 1 BTC if there were referrals) but the problem is that only a few continued to keep sats from faucets until now.
Freebitco had a large audience because it was one of the most popular websites among other crypto websites, it was also one of the most promoted. I remember when one of the biggest bank in my country started accepting of Bitcoin through a sister company, they were promoting Freebitco.in as one of the best ways to collect your first Bitcoins. Btw I wouldn't say that users had the opportunity to easily collect lots of sats because Bitcoin's price was low and if someone was working a job with minimum pay, would easily be able to collect lots of Bitcoins.