I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
I stopped laughing everywhere else. Sure there’s bad news but the internet (and Reddit) always found a way to make me laugh in the middle of it. Found my laughs here.