Ah ok, you're a self-aware contrarian shit disturber, got it, thanks for answering my question!

Don't worry, so am I, depending on my mood. =D

Anyway, you've been on lemmy for a month, I've been here almost 2 years. My anecdotal experience is considerably more substantial than yours.

One reason to be here, and not on Reddit, is a person's principles. I had been on reddit since all the way back when Digg was more popular tha Reddit.

They've since entirely sold out, morally, literally, they're obviously enshittifying, squeezing the last bit of juice out of a business with an expiration date, by way of a deluge of ads, heavy censorship, outright endorsement and making a business practice of catering to bot nets, etc.

Obviously people do not all have the same opinions or principles, and it is at least my view that lemmy facilitates such things in a far more sustainable and transparent manner than Reddit.

But that is because of lemmy's systemic design principles, not simply because it is a particular or different set of people.

I will vehemently call out bullshit moderation when I see it. And because of the lemmy instances work... users can favor visiting or migrate away from or toward certain moderations rules they find more or less reasonable.

They can criticize moderators, without simply being totally banned or shadow banned by them, across all of lemmy, because lemmy does not have monolithic governance.

Lemmy has a ton of diversity, that you're not going to see if you only sort by Top and end up on lemmy.world most of the time.

In summary, I disagree with your actual opinion here based on both my own more susbtantial anecdotal experience, and my seemingly more comprehensive understanding of the systemic, mechanical, functional differences between reddit and lemmy.

I do thank you though for actually engaging with me in good faith.

Have an interesting day!