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.
Tildes also doesn’t allow memes and only accepts “quality content”, meaning they can delete your comments and threads if someone (idk who) thinks they aren’t good enough. This will cause everyone on tildes to sound like the same person.
I made this as a kid. It tastes like melted Pepsi float. Not super great.