I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I'm used to seeing the same things on each platform. That's how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.

To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn't at the top. I don't post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.

But this past week, I'm seeing more and more interesting content in the "Everything" section of Lemmy that I didn't see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.

Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police...

Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 35 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I think part of it is that Reddit has gotten so bad that even casual users are noticing that it's basically indistinguishable from any other corporate social media.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 hours ago

Concidentally, as of lately, Reddit has seemed more "dead" to me than usual.
And that's not even counting the egregious "cloned threats" where, within the span of one or a few days, the exact same comments, but with all-different user names, are being copied underneath two headlines with similar topics; or the weird, LLM-written and machine-translated comments that very badly match the topic at hand or the OP they're replying to, something that's especially obvious if you visit non-English-language subs.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 16 points 12 hours ago

There has also been an influx of users on Piefed which might explain why things seem more active on here.

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I automatically assume Redditors are bots from some state actor. I've seen enough obvious campaigns that it's impossible for me to trust anymore

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Well yeah, and Ghislaine Maxwell was also a Reddit power mod (mod or r/news and apparently some other big subreddits too).