I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
This. I wouldn’t be surprised if its 85% bots and paid posters now. Sucked all the fun out of it. You have to wade through the slop and propaganda to get to the real, quality shitposts.
I’m a recent refugee and it just continued to get worse and worse. This week I was just like fuck it, I’m done. I looked up “Reddit alternative” and StumbledUpon the fediverse. Loving it so far. Actually communicating with real humans is something I didn’t realise I missed so much.