In a way, NFTs were supposed to solve this.

Some of my comments get down voted for seemingly no reason, or because I went against the “norm”, but often i write a joke that falls flat.

I signed up to lemmy.ml because it was the “main” one. It had more content than any other instances, and it was the first result on Google search

None, it’s all 1 big network. Each instance is a different flavor of the same thing.

Tangent: I don’t understand why existing in an instance somehow makes a user any different than anyone else. Yet, I hear people saying things like “typical lemm.ml user” or crap about Hexbear users. It’s like people are taking the ideologies of the instance owners and labeling anyone in it to have the same ideologies. Where did this come from?

• 28 (fail)
• Game Programmer (pass)
• Windows user (fail)

Younger people and casual Reddit users never left Reddit. People who were ok with still using old.reddit didn’t leave Reddit. When I first joined Lemmy.ml during the blackout, the website struggled to load, the communities were hard to find or non existent, and there wasn’t much content (compared to Reddit).

Now that Reddit is dead to me, Lemmy has filled the doomscroll void. I do much less of it now. Also, Lemmy is growing in the right directions.