this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Here, people still feel as guests whereas on reddit, people stayed long enough to feel the place is their's.
("old timers shouln't have to deal with this shit again")
Exactly, I am very new to Lemmy and have been met with nothing but open arms from every community. Reddit at times definitely felt more elitist.
Agree completely. I thinkk my reddit account is 13 years old now. I got over the new reddit UI, took me a while. Still the main thing is, the discussions are what made reddit. Right now, everybody seems to be jumping ship to lemmy/kbin, but most of the main topics are either crapping on reddit or trying to compare reddit with lemmy/kbin, instead of letting it be it's own thing.
My main site will still be reddit, if the quality of posts starts rising without bashing reddit on every 2nd one, then I might change completely.
Also, the UI still feels a bit basic to me.
I think the comparison is valid though. People want to know if Lemmy is a good alternative for them and you can only do that by comparing.
It doesn't take away that Lemmy is it's own thing.