I loved the old-style forums that were around before digg and Reddit largely took over their role. Today, Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to the same type of culture and tighter-knit community I felt on the older forums. Finding Lemmy has completely stripped any desire for me to want to use Reddit again as the culture there feels like it is constantly working to suck my soul out through my eyeballs.
While I understand everyone has different preferences than me, I also wonder why Lemmy users continue to frequent anything but the smaller, niche subreddits. Reddit feels as if it has been decaying for a long time and there is little substance left on the wider site, while Lemmy doesn't feel this way.
So what keeps you going back?
Is it hate-scrolling? Is it niche subs? Do you feel differently about the cultures of Reddit and Lemmy?
Please help me understand.
I mostly left, but ended up back for a sub or two - mainly a thing of there not really being an equivalent to the given sub elsewhere. I try to avoid the larger subs though, I tend to find only misery and pain there. And even my attention on the small ones dwindles over time, they are not immune to the same crowd that frequents the larger ones, and I get little out of them.