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Everyone here is on copium, not gonna lie.
Reddit isn't going to die. Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.
Lemmy has a place and so does reddit.
I still browse reddit, simply because the size of the communities I want to visit is much larger there. My browsing is however confined to the mobile page in Firefox, which is slow, clunky, and breaks frequently, which means my reddit usage is down by something like 99%. Lemmy has the sync app, and without the app I wouldn't be here. Browsing Lemmy before it was awful.
Also, I kinda like that Lemmy is smaller. There's much less noise, less of an algorithm feel to browsing. It feels slightly more like the internet I grew up with in the 90s and 00s, and I kinda missed that.
Size has some pretty big advantages.
In particular, it feels like lemmy is mostly memes and news.
While on reddit, you can have productive discussions about the internals of the Haskell compiler, or ask questions to actual historians. Niche subreddits having a quorum of experts to actually have discussions about stuff was always the best part about reddit. And that part has always been sadly lacking from lemmy because of size.