Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
I like it so far but my issue is that since Reddit had SUCH a huge community. Even niche subreddits were semi active. Here I think it’ll take a while before we hit similar levels (or never at all)
Yeah it’s going to be a small drop in the bucket for some time, but I am pretty optimistic that if the best content creators and mods move over, the rest will too. The best part is the bottom barrel users will remain at Reddit and we’ll relive the glory days before Reddit reached critical mass.
In the meantime I think we are so used to the big subs being awful that we don’t realize the big communities on Lemmy being quality of small subs at Reddit.