I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
I’m tired of the “hot take” toxic culture that has spread from other social media to reddit. It’s just ragegagement now like everything else. Even my gaming subreddits are hostile in the comments now.