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Even if I didn't join lemmy, I would've stopped using reddit. I still have an account so I can login and view posts when they would otherwise block me from viewing because of a VPN.
But why reddit is utter insidious and hostile garbage is another subject.
Lemmy and Mastodon are just in every way more how it's supposed to be. I can use a vpn. I can use whatever non-gmail email. I don't have to worry about one profit-oriented central authority becoming a target to shape discourse in favor of special interest groups, as I could just spin up my own instance, or go elsewhere. The communities are spread across different instances with different operators, owners and motivations. So it's much more organic.
This is by the way also a reason why it's quite important people don't all sign up to the same big instances.
This is a problem on mastodon, where even now joinmastodon.com, by default points to mastodon.social.
Mastodon.social hosts genocide-denying Zionists and is generally more pro-genocide than any of the decent larger instances. Regardless of their own motivations, being hosted in Germany and as THE entry to mastodon, they are a target for shaping public opinion.
Last wish before Christmas, I also wish people would alt-text more on lemmy. Maybe in the future there can be a bot that messages you when the image was posted without alt-text, like on Mastodon. It seemed to have helped people a lot who were new to this.
Wait let me test to see if alt text works the way I think it does:
collapsed inline media
EDIT: I've always wondered what those chunky brackets were for when attaching images! Now I know
I don't think it really works directly presently, at least not for all instances. I'm just using the spoiler tag, or body for alt-text on lemmy at the moment. That probably needs to change before bots can be useful (if I'm not wrong about this).
EDIT: Meh, never mind me, I don't know enough about direct alt-text on lemmy.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/485977