I'm here a month now, from Reddit - got banned there after 14 years, and honestly, find it far nicer and more peaceful than the hot mess Reddit has become since the IPO.

I think if you're looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn't going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves. When I think of how nice reddit was at the start, and how sparse some subs were.. it just takes time for the user base to reach a critical mass.

Patience, grasshopper.

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 9 points 18 hours ago

I made the jump two years ago (on a different instance, not the piefed.ca one) when the reddit API thing went down. The fediverse has grown by leaps and bounds since I first came over. Much more activity now, almost comparable to reddit, at least from my small view of the fediverse anyway.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I think if you’re looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn’t going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves.

You'll start to hate Lemmy too if / when the great unwashed masses begin showing up. Those of us who've been around, shout to @kmirl@lemmy.world, have watched this play out over and over again.

When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.

While I don't disagree at all with that, the very nature of the fediverse sites means there won't be a single point of ownership that turns itself into an advertising platform.

Once the reddit algorithm started adjusting people's feed - including mine -about the time that the IPO dropped, it got really nasty, with the rage-bait subs that I never had even heard of, let alone visited, showing up on my homepage feed and then it turned bad really fast.

Straight up, it's what got me caught up in a snark-fest that got me banned.. which turned out to be one of the best things to happen to me online in a long time.

The poison on Reddit is real.