Today I deleted my Reddit account.
I think the platform is now just a playground for AIs and has integrated lots of ways to make money (prenium subscription, NFT, way too many ads for my taste).
What really made me take the plunge was Reddit’s interface. Seriously, go to the website, what’s with the attrocity? It’s like Fandom but as a social network?
Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon, Peertube and Pixelfed aren’t very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive! It’s also free and Open Source which is always great, but also as open as possible, I mean, Reddit killed Apollo on iOS, I can now have lots of apps on my iPhone with Lemmy!
Now what do I expect from Lemmy. For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.
In short, I’m happy to be on Lemmy.
Blocking instances certainly has its place, but keep in mind that it only blocks the communities of that instance. You’ll still see comments from the instance and the instance will still influence your feed via their voting.
It is generally better to choose an instance that defederates from the instances you don’t like.