Today I deleted my Reddit account.
I think the platform is now just a playground for AIs and has integrated lots of ways to make money (prenium subscription, NFT, way too many ads for my taste).
What really made me take the plunge was Reddit's interface. Seriously, go to the website, what's with the attrocity? It's like Fandom but as a social network?
Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it's the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon, Peertube and Pixelfed aren't very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it's really impressive! It's also free and Open Source which is always great, but also as open as possible, I mean, Reddit killed Apollo on iOS, I can now have lots of apps on my iPhone with Lemmy!
Now what do I expect from Lemmy. For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I've always smiled at.
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In short, I'm happy to be on Lemmy.
I've recently gone back to using reddit regularly because it's the only place with sensible news, lemmy is such a bubble it's a terrible place to get opinions and ideas from.
I'm really not a fan of echo chambers on politics, and lemmy tends to be well outside of mainstream politics.
Eh, anything linked on Reddit has it's own link on here in regards to News. I get news from multiple sources offline and on so putting up with Reddit's negative aspects isn't worth it for me. I also enjoy the discourse on here a lot more, Reddit responses seem more of a "bubble" than the entire Lemmy community you're labeling.
I'll share 2 semi-recent posts I read as an example of why I'm on here instead of Reddit. Btw, both of these posts are about the same BBC article but obviously paint a completely different picture.
Reddit : Crew trapped on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse
Top 4 Comments (1387 total)
Lemmy: They detonated chunks of the bridge while sailors are on board because the US won't allow them shoreside.
Top 4 Comments (30 total)
I just don't have the time to read through 1300 joke comments to get to the 30 or so of actual discussions I'm interested in. The fact that the top comments are just arguing over terminology semantics used in a title (and not the conditions or situation these people were forced into) isn't something I wish to waste my time on.
If lemmy.ml gets to be like Reddit, I just have to move to a smaller instance and I'm done.
I completely agree. Every so often I get an itch to have a look at Reddit, and though the niche subs still seem alright, the comments of anything near the front page are beleaguered with low-quality jokes and karma grabs.
God forbid you're actually interested in discussing the subject, any comment that takes more than a few seconds to write or read gets buried under a thousand others like your first examples.
Also, smaller niche communities just haven’t taken off like news and memes have.
Reddit is just a bigger bubble. All with the same opinion.