Well…duh! Reddit had a massive head start plus they’ve sold their soul to the money guys to ensure that they remain a staple part of the normie diet.

Furthermore, Reddit is a home for propaganda that gets artificially inflated by bots and state actors, thus leading to insane upvote counts.

Here, we have a refined palate. We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.

It’s an adjustment, but it’s worth it, and in the end, I feel like this place has been better for my mental health.

Welcome to Lemmy. We greet you with open arms.

Welcome. I too disagreed with the wrong people on Reddit and can no longer participate there.

Yeah presently Lemmy is not Reddit-scale. But, it also is not Reddit-moderated, or Reddit-algorithmed. I find I can sign into Lemmy, do a bit of scrolling and commentary to scratch my itch, and get on with my day. No dynamic selection designed to retain my engagement through emotional manipulation, a far lower population of malicious bots and actors, and generally more thoughtful discussion.

Quality beats quantity. Federated social breaks the toxic monoculture. Distributed media like this is able to support a broader diversity of people. In the end, this is the future.

The userbase is different, plus you're on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from active communist instances like Hexbear.net.

Anybody got that shocked pikachu lying around. I think OP needs some

Reddit is boosted by thousands of bots, and has a significantly larger userbase.

Reddit has a dramatically larger userbase.

There are simply a lot fewer people on Lemmy. That's to be expected.

I will say that the quality of conversation tends to be a bit higher on Lemmy. YMMV though.

I feel a lot less of the hive-mind effect on Lemmy versus Reddit. Not sure why that is.

Yes, there are way fewer people here than in Reddit

It's funny everyone is suddenly getting banned.

I was on Reddit for at least 10 years. Made a new account, kept arguing against racists

Got banned for racism, obviously by the Nazis. Never got banned in the last 2 decades. And pretty sure none of the racists got banned

But it's no surprise lemmy isn't as big. That's not a bad thing. Reddit is overrun by the same lobbyists and people who have ruined Facebook and made it no longer fun

You can help change that!

I posted a cool meme a while back, and would appreciate the upvote: https://lemmy.ml/post/46803836

Lemmy is shrinking significantly since the boom of the reddit appocalypse. It's a problem a lot of people here like to ignore or pretend it's not a problem.

fewer people, drastically fewer bots

I'm on lemmy just to wait on the waiting list https://rhyme.com/ to be honest 🤷‍♂️