I agree. I lurked Reddit more because every post was met with someone trying to create an argument. Either they disagreed with what I said, made up a different point and disagreed with what they thought I said, or if they couldn’t find anything else, corrected grammar.

It’s enough to make posting not worth the hassle. It wasn’t like that before. Lemmy seems to be more like Reddit in 2012 or so. I’m definitely all for it!

Also, the larger point of if people will leave Reddit: I imagine most will stay. Because most people were still getting ads and don’t care. Most people get inundated with ads all over the Internet and don’t understand that it didn’t use to be that way, and a little tinkering can prevent it in the first place. So they probably don’t notice, and won’t notice the unmoderated bots either.

But I don’t know that those people helped move discussions, either.

I guess the communities have to be of certain size to function and to feel welcoming to post into. For the first point you definitely need enough active users to make it feel alive but the second point is probably very person dependent. To me commenting in the big subreddits felt to much like showting in a very crowded space (so I didn’t comment much) while currently on Lemmy they feel more comfortably sized and somehow more real.

Perhaps for the same reason I never really “got” twitter. I understand it’s usefulness for journalists or celebrities but for me it was too close to screaming into the void to be useful/comfortable.

As for Reddit, many people will probably stick to it simply through the force of habit.

feels like their home

This is actually sad as it reminds me of why people stay in countries with violent authoritative regimes.

I know, it’s different, but there’s also lot of parallels.