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.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Last two years I was repeatedly catching sitewide bans, sometimes appealed, sometimes not. It’s was annoying, but I had seven days to explore lemmy.
What really drove me away were shadowbanned comments. That’s a massively disrespectful way to treat yours users, so fuck them very sincerely.