I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared "other" platforms.

Why isint lemmy more popular?

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago*

somewhat. early reddit was a lot more mainstream. it was mostly a link aggregator for news stories in its early days and subreddits were not really a thing until later. i started using it in 2007 and it was much different by 2010.

the dominant ideology was also libertarian and auti-authoritarian, not extreme leftism of various flavors that are pro authoritarian. there was very much a lack of controlling the narrative and language policing... that didn't take hold until mid 2010s as the reddit 'scandals' caused the admins to start cracking down.

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