It's not the size, it's the content and format. When your goal is profit, you set up the system so that it fuels negative emotions to keep people hooked and addicted. Any time you weren't engaged is money lost. I can guarantee, if you go back and look now you'll see so much negativity on there that you accepted as normal before. The Fediverse is non profit and built for communication alone. No competition points, just people.

Same here. I'm not going back to reddit either. I'm loving the Fediverse. There is plenty of content for me.

Go touch some grass, please.

I appreciate that there’s less ragebait here. It’s not nonexistent, but I feel like Reddit is filled with it.

I agree, it's helped my mental health and is helping me with other hobbies I've been meaning to pick up. Which is ridiculous, because I would subscribe to subreddits for those hobbies, but would never actually engage with them, then feel like a lazy dickhole.

Same. I’m nervous about if/when enough people make the switch and start actively commenting…I might get lost in the comments like I had on Reddit.

I commented this before. Leaving reddit was a blessing for my internet use. I am actively seeking out interesting content, getting my news from actual news sites and discovering way more stuff then just simply getting dumbed down by the seemingly same content that every reddit post and comment thread has to offer