I’m not sure how the tone has changed around here since 2020, but I like the vibes for the most part and if I don’t like a server, I can hop to another one, which I have done several times already.

I was only active back then for a very short time on my old account. It was basically only after the first Reddit API announcement exodus, that Lemmy started to have the critical mass of users that makes it feel very similar to old Reddit like nowadays, which is when I started to truly become active.

In 2020, it felt much more like old forums, with just a handful of active users at a time, even more concentrated around the devs and hardcore Libre/FOSS people. It was nice in its own way from what I saw, but I, personally, couldn’t really get into it (I prefer the content-focused nature of Lemmy, where you can get “lost in the crowd” to some degree, but without the trappings of total anonymity like with the *chans for example).