Technology

You are missing a ton of what I said.

First, YOU may not have a subreddit local to your town, but that does not mean that NOBODY does?

Agreed that Facebook is far worse, but then all the more reason to use Reddit as the lesser (albeit still) evil?

And again YOU may not read the political communities, unhelpfully named like "memes" or "comics" or "technology", but that does not mean that NOBODY does.

The Lemmy "random" instance picker chooses lemmy.ml or hexbear.net sth like >80-90% of the time, last I checked, and if you visit Lemmy.ml you will see how the default view for someone without an account is Local (again iirc, last I checked), not All. Someone visiting from Reddit will have that as their first view, and seeing nothing worth sticking around for, and much reason to leave, your average American centrist aka niche content creator will nope right out and never return, often leaving negative feedback behind everywhere else they go (r/Redditalternatives, Bluesky, Xhitter, etc.) about their experiences on what they saw of "Lemmy".

YOU have curated an extensive blocklist, and if you are anything at all like myself, tend to forget as time passes what the experience is like for a brand-new visitor.

I agree wholeheartedly that the ultimate goal should be to get off Reddit, but I was adding some context that sometimes people cannot do that so readily, and we here on the Threadiverse do not really welcome non-technical normies anyway. It is what it is.