The difference is that Lemmy is a social platform and Reddit is a advertisement delivery platform, by which it has joined the ranks of other so called top-tier "Social Platforms" like xitter, facebook and instagram.

Yet Reddit suppresses discussion of lemmy…

I’d actually argue they do. Look at how often posts and comments mentioning Lemmy get removed. If they didn’t care about them, they’d leave them up like they didn’t matter.

A bigger boat is not always a better one.

Lemmy

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Accurate, don't forget that Donald Draper is actually a miserable SOB who is not who he's pretending to be

Anyone miss old school forums ? Sometimes I do.

Accurate

I think the main cause is the time aspect. Like the lemming above, I'm missing the old Reddit. The bottom half of the picture is the (somewhat) new reddit. But yeah, I'm aware it hasn't changed overnight only 1-2 years ago.

I don't miss it. I clicked today on a reddit search result after a long while and ended up on an AI generated search thing that was trying to be helpful. Noped the hell out.

The context of that scene is that he does, in fact, think about him and just got done being a petty vindictive bitch.

So, yeah, about that dynamic which is why Reddit bans discussion about Lemmy.