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.
Freedom to choose (servers). no corporate shilling.
I browsed as Anon some years ago, signed up to .world and have moved servers since, along with a backup on piefed.
i left Reddit long before i signed you on Lemmy. I came to Lemmy from Mastodon. I mostly don’t use that anymore but do have a gotosocial account