Warning: This is a rant.
I don't really know how to describe it but the content isn't quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn't quite seem as 'normal' as what I'm used to from reddit.
There's a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn't toxic.. just saying). Random conversations go into: "omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service." Then we have the 'if we don't defederate with Meta the world ends' conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse.. maybe it will make it more normalized..idk. Then the: "if your app isn't open source its awful and terrible for the world" people.
Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn't quite my cup of tea.
These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn't stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus).
The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth.
Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment.
In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn't such assholes and this whole thing didn't happen the way it did.
I'm completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that's to be expected with something at this stage.
Please don't hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way.
/Rant
I'm not contesting the location of the post, just its content. I upvoted your post, because that's how the unpopular opinion subreddit worked, so I assume that's how this works too.
I freely admit I was annoyed when I made my comment. I'm sorry about that. I did make an effort to specifically phrase it so that it simply shares my perspective and doesn't assume anything about yours; simply asks questions. I guess I just don't get why someone would bother protesting Reddit's API profit-driven API changes and move to a not-for-profit platform only to turn around and be happy to invite a profiteering entity with a terrible track record onto it. Sure, I'm annoyed by it, but I'm also just confused, because it's... inconsistent. Do you believe Meta/Reddit and other tech companies are interested in just profit, or not? From a corporate perspective, can we not agree that Meta would like to incorporate Fediverse users into their social media, and will reap additional profit if they do, which is all the incentive they need?
I'm sorry I implied I didn't see a point of your post. I agree with you on all the other stuff you mentioned about Reddit having larger communities, and so on. Yes, Lemmy apps are still under development, and they're a bit buggy, and this is new and weird, and so on. Change always is. That's all fine and valid, and I can see why your post is a bonding ground for all the Redditors (including myself) who've left in the last month. I'm just confused about the attitude toward the companies. Honestly, I'm really afraid of having to move to yet another platform if Meta comes here, and that fear manifests itself as defensiveness. So I wasn't very nice, and I'm sorry about that.