I've been thoroughly enjoying Lemmy much more than I did Reddit. I find it's overall less toxic and I'm therefore engaging more instead of just lurking.

One criticism, though: I really do not like the communities that use bots to copy over posts and comments from Reddit. I see no value in commenting or engaging on those posts as the original poster is not present for discussion. It's also kind of weird that the original posters are most likely not aware their post and its comments have been copied elsewhere and may be having further engagement.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be honest it works for memes. Memes are 99% of the time just reposted garbage anyways.

For everything else though, I agree. Bots shouldn't be used

[–] lost_in_the_bewilderness@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Yes -- I agree, it does work for memes.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with the post especially in niche communities just to keep them alive. But yeah comments seem useless.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

One of the best things I've done is to uncheck "show bot accounts" in settings.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Reddit it got so bad I stopped responding to replies entirely. I'm still not very regular about that, but whenever I check now, I'm shocked to find I'm not just getting blindly downvoted for potentially contraversial statements. It feels like a really good sign to me - progress in an era of downward spirals as low effort people all over the world spew their nonsense on everything.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I treat Reddit like I treat twitter. When something happens, I look at it to get a read on the situation, or what people are saying or whatever. But I otherwise totally ignore it now.

A year ago, I couldn't go an hour without looking at Reddit.