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.
Though this account is only a few months old, I’ve been on Lemmy for a few years under various accounts.
I joined because of the API changes. Fuck Reddit and fuck spez