I think itβs partly because reddit has become an overflowing bucket of shit where bots accuse bots of being bots and real humans get permabanned for breaking bs rules or saying no-no words.
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I think part of it is that Reddit has gotten so bad that even casual users are noticing that it's basically indistinguishable from any other corporate social media.
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Iβm someone who just re-joined after trying out lemmy & kbin a couple years ago then dropping off after a few months. I can say the experience now is a lot better. Thereβs so much more content and activity.
I still use Reddit for more niche topics but I donβt miss it nearly as much as expected to.
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Bots vs people
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Lemmy has been one of my primary social networks for some time. It is excellent.
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The thing that I love about Lemmy is at least it's not as infected with bots as other places. It's the equivalent of going to rancher's market to get my spicy comments and bickering ya know.
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Very cool feedback, i hope newcomers enjoy their stay too. It's not perfect but i do hope the fediverse is a fun place whatever fedisoftware you are on. 8)
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There seem to be more and more comments and I have seen posts with almost 1000 upvotes in top 24h in ALL. It was usually more around the 300.
I think a lot of it is unfortunately tied to how quiet US politics is, when more outrageous things happen, the worse the lemmy experience becomes.
We are just not the type to put our heads in the sand.
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I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.
Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it's not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.
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I just subscribed to new communities and i've gotten more involved in Lemmy again. New content yey!
As more of the world is moving into the #boycottUS movement more people are moving to open source alternatives. I personally wish more people would move to more open source things rather than alternative closed source things that could be sold to a US company.
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Not sure about divergence, but there are definitely a lot more interesting posts now. I've tried fediverse (kbin) when the reddit API shit happened. I'm a gamer and there weren't many interesting gaming posts at the time so I returned back to Reddit like a week later. This time with the Discord bullshit I gave fediverse another try and it's so much better now. It's still not as many compared to Reddit but at least there are actual content I enjoy scrolling.
I come for conversation. Granted its just snippets here and there but im not here to got links or media dropped on me without context.
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I've been noticing a rampant increase in bot farming attempts, so that's at least a signifier that we're definitely becoming popular with the regulars
It comes and goes here
Had some gems recently indeed
The last few months Iβve had a constantly changing and active homepage but for my subscriptions and on all. Lemmy is the real deal.
America Team
Isn't it "Team America"?
Fuck yeah!
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yeah I agree to I avoid "All/Everything" and just build my fave feeds:
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If I didn't like Motorhead I'd still be on reddit. /s
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