I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.
I’m enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I’m enjoying my time here.
Oh boy, the 2000’s, when you can actually tell a bot from a real person. If there were any bots at all.
back in my day our bots just corrected Wikipedia links or turned comments into shitty haikus and we LIKED IT*
* well, no a lot of people did not like it