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Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!
It checks all the boxes for me. No bots, no spam, mostly coherent adults, feels just like using reddit.
I hate to sound all hipster, but a super big community does typically end up ruining themselves. It's nothing against the fandom itself or even the majority of people in it, it's just that eventually more toxic people will be included as popularity increases.
That was my biggest gripe nearing the end of reddit and how all subs past 250k subs felt like they either became /r/pics, /r/videos, or /r/funny
Have to remember too that at first, reddit was a little confusing and frictional, a new forum system, took a bit to get used to. That's what bought it the time it needed to really solidify it's own identity and culture.
After a while, and a few migrations, as more and more people flood in, eventually the influx is too fast for the new people to be able to pick up on the culture. It's like Exponentially Eternal September.
It'll happen here too eventually, but fortunately the platforms structure makes it much easier to splinter using native features.