| I moved to Lemmy back in 2020, and last logged in to Reddit in 2023. Here are some thoughts for those interested: * Lemmy has much more "extreme" roots. The original people who went to Lemmy back in 2018/2019 have very strong political ideologies, and even though Lemmy is much bigger now, those roots really shaped the culture of Lemmy * Lemmy is federated, sort of like email. You can self-host your own email provider if you really want, but you should probably just register to one of the top 3 providers * Lemmy is missing niche communities. At around ~1% the size of Reddit, you just won't find a community for your favorite game, city, or meme genre * Lemmy is obviously open source (AGPL), and their servers are very cheap to run (compared to Reddit's insane op costs) * As a poster, I enjoy "contributing" quality content to Lemmy. No one is getting rich or IPOing off my work, and it is clearly designed in a way that even if the founders wanted to make it profitable, they couldn't Tl;dr For KPIs, Lemmy is objectively worse than Reddit. The only real reason to go is if you like the "alternative" social media services. |
And because of that, many instances also block many other instances, leading to fragmentation and people seeing (or not) different sets of comments... it's very much a "which wind would you like to piss into" situation IMO.
I always feel like my comments do not reach many people and am questioning why I even bother to say something.