Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
Lemmy/Piefed is starting to feel like reddit when it was most enjoyable. Actual communities gathering around common interests and real conversations around those topics. Moderation isn’t too far into the curated accepted response only zone that reddit fell into even before the API debacle. Meaning if you have a disagreement or differing opinion with someone you have to hash it out instead of the insta banhammer many subreddits implemented.
Also I kinda like that there’s a diverse age range of people here. Seems moreso than on reddit but that may be because there’s less of us altogether. So age stuff sticks out more.