Wanting to learn something hits the nail on the head. I recently came to the realization that I used to learn things on reddit, especially in the comments. Not sure when that stopped but it's why I had been wishing for an alternative for a while.

Agreed Lemmy is a lot cleaner IMO. I'd be all-in if it weren't for the political baggage, even with federation we're empowering these guys and giving them a bigger platform. l'm still uneasy about that.

Not to rain on anyone's parade but I'd be shocked in reddit hard deletes comments given how valuable that data is.

The copy/paste thing has got to go. It's somewhat non-obvious and make federation even more confusing when people click links and end up not logged in anymore.

same! I almost never commented on reddit but I've felt a lot more comfortable being active here. Something about the size of it led me to always be of the opinion that 'whatever I'm thinking, it's already been said'.

I dunno, "too political" can just mean people don't want every discussion to devolve into politics. Having these strong left communities front and center can give that impression. I don't need to read a low effort "capitalism bad" on every topic. I hope this doesn't devolve into that, but filtering out the politically apathetic sends us in direction for that to happen.