Considering askreddit was the first sub I personally noticed go from feeling like anywhere else online to become blatantly overrun with bots and astroturfing, feels like a chicken-or-the-egg situation.

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Niche communities, like everyone else.

In my case, I am very into Genshin Impact. Lemmy has a very small Genshin community as it is, whereas Reddit has specific and very active communities for leaks, lore, and particular characters. There’d have to be a mass migration to Lemmy for any chance of that quality of discussion and theorycrafting coming here, and I’m not holding my breath.

If I had the free time to moderate it, I’d make a leaks community here, but I don’t. So it is what it is, and I will continue to visit Reddit until it becomes unusable for me.

I didn’t know it worked like that. I think I understand now, thank you.