I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
Oh boy, the 2000’s, when you can actually tell a bot from a real person. If there were any bots at all.
back in my day our bots just corrected Wikipedia links or turned comments into shitty haikus and we LIKED IT*
* well, no a lot of people did not like it