To be honest, the whole reddit thing didn't affect me one bit, I never modded anything, never used 3rd party apps, always used the official app. I just thought that, yes, this does seem like a good idea, I don't do any of those things, but apparently, a lot of people do and they like using those apps/tools, so, yeah, I'll try this new thing, it's opens source, it's federated, no big brother hanging over your sholder... turns out, for my needs, it's worse than what reddit was. For starters, I don't need to have 3 main accounts just so that I can see all of the content of all of the communities I'd like to subscribe to. Second, I don't have to open up new communities and moderate them and upload content, like I had to do now. And last, reddit actually tracks what I do. I know, that sounds bad, but I actually like it. Why? Because it remembers if I was active in a certain sub the last 2, 3, 4 days and the first feeds it gives me is from that sub, which I like, apparently I stayed over there for quite a while the last time I was active, which means I find it's content interesting. Lemmy doesn't have that. Call it evil, I call it a feature.