Quality over quantity everytime for me.

On top of that, I feel far more incentive to comment, upvote, and just generally engage here.

Overall this feels like a less hostile environment, without the clickish groupthink that had an army of bots or trolls out to downvote you.

People have mentioned the higher complexity of getting set up on instances as a barrier to entry for the masses. I say wonderful. I'll take a small community of diverse, engaged people over the mobs of span, trolls, and parrots.

Leaving reddit for lemmy feels like finding a nice person who cares after being in along abusive relationship. Never realised how bad it was, or how good it could be.

Is it temporary? Who knows, but I'd rather spend my time making this into what I want then ever looking back.