Warning: This is a rant.
I don't really know how to describe it but the content isn't quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn't quite seem as 'normal' as what I'm used to from reddit.
There's a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn't toxic.. just saying). Random conversations go into: "omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service." Then we have the 'if we don't defederate with Meta the world ends' conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse.. maybe it will make it more normalized..idk. Then the: "if your app isn't open source its awful and terrible for the world" people.
Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn't quite my cup of tea.
These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn't stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus).
The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth.
Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment.
In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn't such assholes and this whole thing didn't happen the way it did.
I'm completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that's to be expected with something at this stage.
Please don't hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way.
/Rant
I don't feel the same as you feel, for two reasons:
However I can understand your feel. Those discussions are nice if you like them (like I do), but if you don't, they feel like unprompted preaching about things that are contextually irrelevant. And since Reddit is bigger, for now it's easier to find "your turf" there.
I think that it'll get better over time; if you stick around, you'll miss Reddit less and less. New comms will pop up, old comms about other topics will grow, and people will eventually distribute themselves better across instances, based on their likes/dislikes. It'll become easier to avoid this talk about open source and privacy, or to embrace it if someone else so desires. And as the platform aggregates more content, other people will come in due to network effect, and those new people will probably talk more about other stuff than "we" older users do. Including the depth that you (and I) want for discussions.