So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.
For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I’m confident it would get much more.
It’s like… WAY smaller. This should not be shocking.
Also, I remain unconvinced that a ballooning userbase would be a good thing for lemmy / pubhub, for multiple reasons - not least of which: it would probably push a lot of instance admins/owners out, simply due to having to handle more load and infrastructure and cost and so on. A smaller community is more sustainable, more easily moderated, and tends to be less filled with pervasive cruft and bots and so on.
And way more dull
Almost every obvious stupid joke is taken way too literally, or offensively by someone or other, so I always do a double check, and delete half of my drafted replies. And that’s even after i (try to) block most politics/Dump/Skum channels.
Unless I’m really in the mood for downvote farming by trolling linux nerds (drunk).