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To be honest, I've been dissatisfied with Reddit for quite a while now but just didn't realise it. Once I dipped my toes into the Fediverse I realised what it was I'd been missing: that sense of community that Reddit used to have before it became too big, too cold and too corporate. In my defence I used RIF for years and was shielded from the worst excesses of corporate culture. After setting myself up on Lemmy and getting a bit of a handle on what's what I'm really enjoying the sense of intimacy and DIY ethos. It's far more like the Reddit I used to know. It feels good to be back.
I generally post in search of comments rather than upvotes, and I feel like Kbin/Lemmy are a lot better about that than Reddit. On Reddit, a post with only 50 upvotes is probably dead and will only get like 3 comments, meanwhile here it's easy to get a huge number of comments with even a comparably small number of votes.
I suppose it helps that there's just not as much content so far, a 50 upvote post here is legitimately good engagement relative to the userbase, while on somewhere big like Reddit it's a drop in the ocean