Honestly the issue isn’t Reddit, it’s just people. Most people are decent to great, with a smaller group of bad to horrible. With more people on Reddit the pool of bad to horrible is bigger, and they tend to be the loudest of the bunch.
I feel a lot of the times you get better answers here if only for the community being a bit better in quality. However, way more questions have been asked and answered on Reddit.
Just Reddit. You can request you data from them. For whatever reason it takes a few days (up to 30 from what they say) so I had to wait for it to come in.
I deleted my account the other day actually, once the backup was complete. I’m sure most will stay on Reddit but honest Lemmy is better off. Sure, there isn’t as much content but most of the content on Reddit isn’t really worth any one’s time anyway.
New communities are popping up all the time here and it’s great to see.
With the amount of time spent talking about Reddit on Lemmy that’s not too big of a surprise
Agreed. It took me a few tries to get into Mastodon. What helped me was discovering that I could follow hashtags of topics that interest me. That opened the door to interesting people to follow.
Thank you for all the hard work and transparency as always! Everything is running perfectly knocks on wood
Like a lot of people here have already said, I think a different space is being created for those that are more in the know. The average person just isn’t as invested or versed in what’s going on to move to a different platform when the current is working fine for them.
I agree with you of course, proven by where we are having this conversation. However, I have my doubts about the majority of Reddit users switching, at least currently. Most people don’t understand what is going on and are even more confused by the alternatives.
Because they don’t have too be. Most people are so dependent on social media that they’ll keep using a service even though they hate it. Like a drug addict who keeps using even though it’s killing them.
I prefer books myself but this move makes sense. A lot of people prefer a digital copy and this kills two birds with one stone.
I’ve noticed smaller groups work really well. Once they get too large they start to devolve into in-fighting causing smaller sub-groups within the main. It’s almost as if we’re just not designed as a species to communicate with this many people all at once…